A new batch of language links, and (since they are roughly monthly) probably the last this year.
The origin of strop.
The anticlimactic linebreak.
How computers understand speech.
Is ranga (= red-haired person) offensive?
We listen with our hands too.
Edinburgh’s mystery book sculptor returns.
Preaching the incontrovertible (on that/which) to the unconvertible.
Youse had better get used to it.
The enormity of a usage problem.
Computers’ trouble with prepositions.
Are online dictionaries finding their ideal format?
Brain-eating zombie nouns.
Crowd-sourcing scientific terms in sign language.
The global language of procrastination.
Why do new words survive?
Hyperforeign stollen.
A brief history of taxi words.
A well-intentioned rant about hyphens.
English and Hinglish in India.
That’s so random: the evolution of an odd word.
Rare book dispenser at the Monkey’s Paw.
English is not a Scandinavian language.
The value of editing: a Twitter chat.
Replyallcalypse and other libfix tech disasters.
20 rules for writing detective stories.
The origin of language in gesture–speech unity.
The recursiveness of language linkfests.
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