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"Dead As A Doornail" Idiom Definition And Origin 4 sl8 Jul 2022 Jul 2022 12 3779

"Romanes Eunt Domus" Explained 1 Kennah Nov 2023 Nov 2023 2 813

"Thank you" in more than 465 languages 0 vkkv Mar 2016 Mar 2016 1 2422

'hijastro' & 'filiaster' 1 Lionel Mandrake Oct 2015 Oct 2015 1 2358

'Latinx': Why do many Hispanics hate the term? 22 Behind the Aegis Sep 2023 Sep 2023 6 2502

100 verbs to survive in JAPAN! (Essential verbs in a day) 0 YoshidaYui Jun 2021 Jun 2021 1 3999

1400 Japanese Vocab & Phrase 3 hr Audiobook (BasicIntermediate) 0 yuiyoshida Apr 2020 Apr 2020 1 1661

350 Phrases Every Japanese Beginner Must Know 5 yuiyoshida Dec 2020 Dec 2020 0 3365

5 Jewish Languages You Didn't Know Existed 1 Behind the Aegis Mar 2023 Mar 2023 2 1156

A Brief History of British and Irish Languages 4 ashling Mar 2019 Jul 2019 19 2745

A Collection Of Curious Words From The Welsh Language 0 geardaddy Apr 2014 Apr 2014 0 2670

A comprehensive website of cliches (though I prefer to call them idioms) 1 ailsagirl Jun 2016 Jun 2016 2 2372

A huge map of American English Dialects 5 Odin2005 Jan 2012 Jul 2012 5 4126

A neat site for translations 4 Behind the Aegis Jul 2013 May 2020 1 4913

A question about the ellipsis 13 PJMcK Aug 2020 Aug 2020 2 3426

A site some of you might enjoy---BBC News Pidgin 1 Jilly_in_VA Jan 2022 Jan 2022 8 2851

Africa's linguistic diversity goes largely unnoticed in research on multilingualism 2 Behind the Aegis Jul 2023 Jul 2023 4 2109

African American English, Black ASL are stigmatized. Experts say they deserve recognition 1 Behind the Aegis Mar 13 Mar 13 1 607

Agnotology 4 littlemissmartypants Sep 2019 Sep 2019 8 1898

Akron-born YouTube star and speaker of many languages dies 1 soryang Apr 2021 Apr 2021 9 3340

Alaska's indigenous languages now official along with English 3 geardaddy Oct 2014 Oct 2014 11 2693

Alice Kober: Unsung heroine who helped decode Linear B 3 geardaddy Jul 2014 Dec 2014 8 2643

American Boys Pretending to Not Speak Korean ( Actually Fluent ) - Prank - [ Sean Pablo ] 8 yuiyoshida Dec 2020 Dec 2020 1 7127

Amid rising antisemitism, the vivid language of Yiddish makes a comeback 0 Behind the Aegis Sep 2023 Sep 2023 2 1017

An appreciation of a uniquely American language: Spanglish 2 Behind the Aegis Mar 17 Mar 17 5 568

Analysis: How Indigenous languages can be preserved, and why those efforts help revitalize culture 1 elleng Oct 2022 Oct 2022 0 3272

Any recommendations for jump starting French 9 bucolic_frolic Apr 2020 Jun 2020 0 5303

Anyone heard the expression "be the Jesus" used? 9 raccoon May 2023 May 2023 1 2178

Ask me anything -- 30 days of unbridled fun! 3 Speck Tater Dec 2012 Jan 2013 0 2906

Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners 2 RZM Jan 2012 Sep 2012 0 2950

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Calling Yourself Humbled Doesnt Sound as Humble as It Used To 2 Dark n Stormy Knight Feb 2017 Feb 2017 4 3007

Can any suggest American TV shows that I can watch which are 3 phylny Jan 2021 Jan 2021 0 5359

Can anyone explain the syntax of "I saw it happen"? 12 Lionel Mandrake Aug 2014 Aug 2014 0 5922

Can Modern English Speakers Understand Old English? Language Challenge Feat. Eadwine 0 YoshidaYui May 2023 May 2023 0 1588

Can Modern English Speakers Understand Old English? Language Challenge Feat. Eadwine 5 YoshidaYui May 2023 May 2023 14 4729

Christian pastor warns that Duolingo has been "infiltrated" by gay people 1 Behind the Aegis Mar 2023 Nov 2023 3 4962

Classroom vs IRL: Spanish 2nd Person 9 Montauk6 Jul 2022 Dec 2022 0 2515

Conservatives use language as a weapon... 4 ihaveaquestion Jan 2024 Jan 2024 6 1538

Cool website thats helpful 2 AsahinaKimi Jul 2012 Jul 2012 1 3193

Crossing Divides: Two Koreas divided by a fractured language 5 soryang Mar 2019 Mar 2019 2 3324

Digital tools 'to save languages' 1 Starboard Tack Feb 2012 Feb 2012 2 2536

Do German speaking people still use the title Fraulein"? 3 raccoon Nov 2022 Nov 2022 0 4257

DO NOT SAY 'I think...' - say THIS instead - 21 more advanced alternative phrases 6 yuiyoshida Jan 2020 Jan 2020 4 2410

Does anybody know how come English retained some irregular plurals (feet, mice, oxen, children, 8 raccoon Feb 2012 Aug 2014 0 5748

Does anyone here speak Croatian/Serbian? 8 whathehell Apr 2012 Sep 2012 1 5502

Does redundancy constitute bad grammar? 38 Lionel Mandrake Jul 2017 Apr 2019 0 7679

Dr Peterson- How to Speak (Korean) Authentically 1 soryang Feb 2022 Feb 2022 1 1585

DuoLingo app! 3 yuiyoshida May 2020 Sep 2020 0 3193

Duolingo: Standing with Ukraine: a message from the CEO 2 Behind the Aegis Mar 2022 Mar 2022 8 3913

Early recording of Korean from the Sorbonne 2 soryang Dec 2020 Dec 2020 2 2999

Easter Island Tablets Finally Deciphered 4 Anonymousecoview Apr 2013 Apr 2013 0 3063

English must be so confusing to ESL people - where is the 'g' in anxiety? 28 bucolic_frolic Mar 2021 Mar 2021 2 5189

expressing feelings in Japanese 7 yuiyoshida Jun 2019 Jul 2019 1 2212

F-bombs notwithstanding, all languages skew toward happiness: Universal human bias f/ positive words 0 Panich52 Feb 2015 Feb 2015 1 1914

Fascinating subject 3 Starboard Tack Dec 2011 Jan 2012 0 2850

Finally decided on a third language... Turkish 4 prodigitalson Nov 2021 Nov 2021 1 2845

First Thread! 5 The Philosopher Dec 2011 Sep 2012 2 4573

French is becoming a polysythetic language?!?!?!? 6 Odin2005 Mar 2012 Dec 2012 1 8342

From Judeo-Greek to Karaim, Oxford courses on 12 rare Jewish languages aim to keep heritages alive 0 Behind the Aegis Oct 2021 Oct 2021 2 2419

From the Guardian: Don't neglect the UK's indigenous languages 3 geardaddy Nov 2013 Nov 2013 1 3041

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German lumpers and splitters 5 Lionel Mandrake Oct 2021 Nov 2021 1 1415

Getting over the feeling that Yiddish is just for old folks 4 Behind the Aegis Nov 2021 Jan 2022 4 3517

Google sets out to save dying languages 1 AsahinaKimi Jun 2012 Jun 2012 1 2872

Group Host 8 The Philosopher Dec 2011 Dec 2011 2 4010

Hand of Irulegi: ancient Spanish artefact rewrites history of Basque language 3 Jilly_in_VA Nov 2022 Dec 2022 15 4348

Has anyone gone to an immersion school? 10 Manifestor_of_Light Feb 2012 Sep 2018 1 5179

Hidden Influence of Chinese Characters and Words on Korean Vocabulary and Writing (Zev Handel) 0 soryang Aug 2021 Aug 2021 0 2338

How I Learnt JAPANESE (Mikan) 3 yuiyoshida Jan 2020 Feb 2020 0 1927

How to Upgrade your Speech by Not Saying "Like" 9 littlemissmartypants Nov 2018 Jan 2019 3 3127

How Yiddish became a 'foreign language' in Israel despite being spoken there since the 1400s 1 Behind the Aegis Sep 2023 Sep 2023 6 1952

Hwang Jini's riddle is a play on Hanja 0 soryang Jan 2020 Jan 2020 1 4756

I have a question: What is your opinion of learning two different languages at once? 36 whathehell Dec 2014 May 2016 0 9041

I have a Spanish final in six days 20 lazarus Dec 2011 Jan 2012 0 6692

I learned something new today.... 3 yuiyoshida Jun 2020 Jun 2020 4 2819

I was looking at taking Spanish at our community college. I was wondering about online 4 brewens Apr 2020 Apr 2020 0 2779

I wonder about the evolution of words for technology 3 Marthe48 Jul 2022 Jul 2022 2 3468

If you are interested in phrases, check out... 0 Behind the Aegis Jun 2014 Jun 2014 3 2266

IME, American public schools tended to teach French more than any other language. 8 raccoon Dec 2012 Mar 2014 0 4030

Interesting twitter thread on "translation talk" 1 soryang May 2020 May 2020 3 2301

Is Japanese Katakana Derived from Korean Kwukyel? 3 soryang Jul 2022 Jul 2022 0 3081

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