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larryhammerPeoples and words, words and peoples.
Photos of people around the world posing with the food they eat in a day. (via)
A linguist explains how English came to have gendered pronouns without gendered nouns/adjectives. Pull-quote: "It’s really hard for me to take seriously any claims about The Decline of English Among Kids These Days when you consider that if kids didn’t talk a bit differently each generation we’d still be speaking Pre-Proto-Indo-European." (via)
All the dialog of Star Wars: A New Hope in alphabetical order. Fun fact: "lightsaber" appears exactly once. (via)
---L.
Subject quote from "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour, July 13, 1798," William Wordsworth.
Photos of people around the world posing with the food they eat in a day. (via)
A linguist explains how English came to have gendered pronouns without gendered nouns/adjectives. Pull-quote: "It’s really hard for me to take seriously any claims about The Decline of English Among Kids These Days when you consider that if kids didn’t talk a bit differently each generation we’d still be speaking Pre-Proto-Indo-European." (via)
All the dialog of Star Wars: A New Hope in alphabetical order. Fun fact: "lightsaber" appears exactly once. (via)
---L.
Subject quote from "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour, July 13, 1798," William Wordsworth.