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Arika Okrent

Arika Okrent
Arika Okrent is a linguist and author of In the Land of Invented Languages. She worked in a brain research lab on her way to a Psycholinguistics PhD from the University of Chicago, and now writes about language for various publications including Mental Floss, The Week, Smithsonian Magazine, Popular Science, Slate, and Aeon.


Kempt, Couth, Ruth: On the Disappearing Antonyms of “Grumpy” Words

Arika Okrent Wonders Why Negative Descriptors Tend to Outlast Their Positive Counterparts
July 23, 2021  By Arika Okrent
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