#language

https://github.com/dariusk/corpora

A collection of small corpuses of interesting data for the creation of bots and similar stuff. Coul...

http://russelldavies.typepad.com/planning/2014/06/...

On the importance of being precise about your relationships with the human beings who make up your u...

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/07/02/...

I have learned words, and seen pretty pictures.

http://sobadsogood.com/2012/04/29/25-words-that-si...

I knew a few of these, but some of the others that I didn't know are lovely, and very revealing abou...

http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/5402/pg5402.ht...

Some proper swearing in here.

http://googletranslate.blogspot.com/2010/02/integr...

Trying to think if there's anything I can say other than "wow". Give it a handful of years, and thi...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sator_Square

I vaguely recall this from GCSE Latin. It is a rather more ace thing now that I'm not looking at it...

http://www.openthefuture.com/2009/03/the_end_of_lo...

Jamais Cascio on the difference a change in language may make when dicussing the many vast problems...

http://waxy.org/2009/02/john_hodgman_on_meh/

This is a perfect summary of that ghastly little word. Key phrase here "It's part of the toxic Inte...

http://www.stephenfry.com/blog/2008/11/04/don%E2%8...

I'm a bit of a linguistic conservative - my objection to neologisms like "squee" and "woot" is well-...

http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/reports/wxfacts/Bri...

Some interesting old terms in here I hadn;'t run across before that might be useful in the future.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/mar/1...

I don't know that I agree with that specific argument (or that Williams does) - one is a reclamation...

http://www.merriam-webster.com/info/07words.htm

I am not pleased. I don't believe the use of words like "woot" should be met with anything less tha...

http://www.presentimperfect.com/archives/2007/01/t...

Deconstruction of language used all-too-commonly in reviews. I may start reviewing in increasingly...

http://www.gawker.com/news/blogs/bad-lingo-blogmed...

I'm guilty of a few of these myself. But there as many I know I've never done, and yes, some of the...