Language

When in Need of the Right Word, Great Writers Simply Make Them Up

Ralph Keyes on the Rich Literary History of the Neologism

 
By Ralph Keyes  March 3, 2021
Language

A Shipwrecked Mother Tongue: On Confronting Linguistic Dispossession

By Claudio Lomnitz  March 1, 2021
Language

On Learning to Speak Dutch and the Art of Doing Nothing

By Olga Mecking  January 15, 2021
Language

Are New Yorkers Really as Rude as Everyone Thinks They Are?

By E.J. White  September 10, 2020
Language

The Wound of Multilingualism: On Surrendering the Languages of Home

By Sulaiman Addonia  September 8, 2020
Language

I Can’t Believe Readers Are Still Getting Upset Over F*cking Swearing

By Amy Poeppel  June 22, 2020
Language

Slurs, Barbs, Digs: Robert Lopez on the Power of Single-Syllable Epithets

By Robert Lopez  May 15, 2020
Language

How Did England Get Its Bizarro Street Names?

By Deirdre Mask  April 9, 2020
Language

Foxed, Fuddled, Swallowed a Hare, and Other Words for “Drunk”

By Literary Hub  April 2, 2020
Language

Pintle, Gudgeon, Chock: On the Rich, Wonderful (and Odd) Vocabulary of Sailing

By Luis Jaramillo  March 10, 2020
Language

Isaac Bashevis Singer on the Particular Wonders of Writing
in Yiddish

By Isaac Bashevis Singer  January 22, 2020
Language

Why We Love
Untranslatable Words

By David Shariatmadari  January 8, 2020
Language

Let’s Talk About Love: A Lost Vocabulary of Amorous Terms

By Paul Anthony Jones  November 13, 2019
Language

Learning to Unsay the R-Word

By Amy Silverman  November 11, 2019
Language

Can Language Be Understood as a Spiritual Medium?

By Johanna Skibsrud  October 3, 2019
Language

Of Sisterly Bonds and Translating the Untranslatable

By Jennifer Croft  September 17, 2019
Language

On the Politics of Italics

By Jumoke Verissimo  August 28, 2019
Language

Belonging is Not a Language You Can Learn

By Brittani Sonnenberg  August 19, 2019
Language

The Bittersweet Feeling of Reconnecting with a Forgotten Language

By Susan Harlan  August 12, 2019
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