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1.

Professor suspended for saying 那个 nà ge (languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)

568 points

6 years ago

2.

Cryptic, allusive messages from Hong Kong's wealthiest tycoon (languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)

395 points

7 years ago

3.

The Notion of “Trolling” in Ancient Sanskrit (languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)

189 points

7 years ago

4.

Whistled Turkish (languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)

164 points

7 years ago

5.

IBM's “Think” Motto in Chinese (languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)

113 points

9 years ago

6.

Is English a “creole Language”? (languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)

108 points

2 years ago

7.

The miracle of reading and writing Chinese characters (languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)

100 points

9 years ago

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Two Dots Too Many (2008) (languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)

95 points

2 years ago

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Two Dots Too Many (2008) (languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)

86 points

11 years ago

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“Just let some joy smoke sift into your system” (languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)

85 points

9 years ago

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Cultural Context of “Death to America” Chants (languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)

84 points

6 years ago

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Tom Wolfe takes on linguistics (languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)

82 points

10 years ago

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Hong Kong protesters messing with the characters, part 2 (languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)

81 points

7 years ago

14.

Why men don't listen (languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)

65 points

16 years ago

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Greeks in Ancient Central Asia: The Ionians (2019) (languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)

62 points

4 years ago

16.

The Passive in English (2011) (languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)

60 points

3 years ago

17.

Quid Pro Crow (languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)

59 points

3 years ago

18.

Turandot and the Deep Indo-European Roots of “Daughter” (2020) (languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)

57 points

4 years ago

19.

The semiotics of barbed wire fence (languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)

56 points

2 years ago

20.

Some highlights of Na’vi (languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)

53 points

16 years ago

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Use of English and Chinese in Alibaba’s Alipay Advertisements (languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)

51 points

9 years ago

22.

One power law to rule them all? (languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)

51 points

7 years ago

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-tucky (2023) (languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)

49 points

5 months ago

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“Beautiful” in the Constitution of the Chinese Communist Party (languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)

46 points

9 years ago

25.

The cyberpragmatics of bounding asterisks (2013) (languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)

43 points

3 years ago

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The Tyrrany of Literacy. On oral tradition and what is lost (languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)

41 points

8 months ago

27.

Scythians Between Russia and Ukraine (languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)

40 points

2 years ago

28.

Names of the chemical elements in Chinese (languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)

39 points

11 years ago

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The directed graph of stereotypical incomprehensibility (2009) (languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)

36 points

5 years ago

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Mistakes about grammar mistakes (languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)

35 points

16 years ago