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  • By Mark Liberman, Geoffrey Pullum, et al.
  • Based in United States of America
  • Roughly two posts per day
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Posts per month
Month starting Posts
Nov 2022 33
Dec 2022 44
Jan 2023 38
Feb 2023 48
Mar 2023 32
Apr 2023 44
May 2023 32
Jun 2023 69
Jul 2023 58
Aug 2023 58
Sep 2023 42
Oct 2023 37
Nov 2023 52
Dec 2023 59
Jan 2024 43
Feb 2024 48
Mar 2024 51
Apr 2024 57
May 2024 71
Jun 2024 61
Jul 2024 53
Aug 2024 65
Sep 2024 59
Oct 2024 11

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Most recent posts

Gyro, part 3
"Turkey’s döner kebab spat with Germany is turning nasty", by Daniel Thorpe, The Spectator (10/5/24) Last April, German president Frank-Walter Steinmeier decided to bring along a 60-kilogram döner kebab on his state visit to Turkey. …
On , by Victor Mair, 550 words
"Lost" languages?
The use of the word lost in this recent story caught my attention — Pankaj Doval, "Google set to revive lost Indian languages", The Times of India 10/3/2024: As it gets deeper into India with …
On , by Mark Liberman, 1,197 words
Aborted character simplification in the mid-1930s
Great piece on the materiality of language. Part of the difficulty in implementing jiantizi in Singapore was just this: for example, in 1983, years after Singapore had begun introducing jianti, the limited availability of type …
On , by Victor Mair, 442 words