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Philology
Words as they get to be spoken, words as they get to be written: to take up this profession, you need to be fond of words.
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Category: language bias
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No man, woman, child, or house, with the pie
The “mother of tongues” had no words for a man, woman, or child?
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British grammar nazis
Try for a plain passport photo: no brooch, scarf, tie, anything you do not always wear.
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Apples on noses
Speaking a second language is almost as if you are two people, says Ms. de Lange. Well, you write bread in English and un pain, in French.
Tongue entanglement
Language is soft conquest, reckoned Mr. Ferriter. He did not reveal his mind on food.
Larry Selinker’s interlanguage
Latent psychological structures become woken in a second language learner brain, claimed Mr. Selinker.
