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Steve the vagabond @stevevagabond.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Wow! 100 issues 😀I started my magazine in June 2018 and now it just reached issue 100 We have a special bumper issue for you. Three language content creators have contributed to this issue: Nativlang, Yoïn van Spijk of "Taal aan de wandel" and Starkey Comics Read more here sillyli.ng/D1fGIj

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Silly Linguistics @sillylinguistics.com · 10/08/2026

Ever been curious about the language used to write Beowulf? It's actually English! Just a very very old version of it. English has change a lot over time. Take a trip into the past and read about the oldest version of the English language over at our website sillyli.ng/GUvxli

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Silly Linguistics @sillylinguistics.com · 20/04/2026

Read about the farmyard, Dune in Old Church Slavonic and Japanese in the latest issue of Silly Linguistics at sillylinguistics.com

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Silly Linguistics @sillylinguistics.com · 14/04/2026

I am so glad you are enjoying it! I will try to make the contact details more prominent

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Silly Linguistics @sillylinguistics.com · 14/04/2026

Oh. That's strange. I use the website every day and it seems to be working fine. I will look into it. For a website you can usually just email admin @ [website], which is true for my website too. If you have any further problems, don't hesitate to let me know.

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Silly Linguistics @sillylinguistics.com · 07/04/2026

Why not read about the linguistics of fruit in the latest issue of the Silly Linguistics magazine at sillylinguistics.com

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Silly Linguistics @sillylinguistics.com · 01/04/2026

Spoken and signed languages are both equally versatile and powerful in expression. The only difference is one is spoken and the other is signed. But the social environment of each is quite different. Read more here sillyli.ng/6z4N6U

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Hands on CPR for dying sign languages

By Yassie Liow How do you save a dead language from being forgotten? The answer’s simple enough: teach the written version to younger generations and preserve native literature. Carve it into stone…

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Silly Linguistics @sillylinguistics.com · 01/10/2025

Issue #88 now available at sillylinguistics.com Silly Linguistics is a magazine for language lovers

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Silly Linguistics @sillylinguistics.com · 16/07/2025

How the French, Religion, and the Bubonic Plague Forced me to Use the Word Y'all By Brandy Cross The Death of a Language By Patricia Syner And many more interesting articles about language and linguistics available in the Silly Linguistics magazine sillyli.ng/Hk0jCk

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Silly Linguistics @sillylinguistics.com · 30/06/2025

English has borrowed a lot of words from Persian

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Silly Linguistics @sillylinguistics.com · 24/06/2025

Slang changes all the time. "humbug" used to be quite offensive, on par with calling something "bullshit" or "for f*ck sake"

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Silly Linguistics @sillylinguistics.com · 03/06/2025

Reason 10393 why English spelling is weird

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Silly Linguistics @sillylinguistics.com · 29/05/2025

The origin of the word "true" in a few languages. Swedish "sann" is related to "sooth" in English "soothsayer"

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Silly Linguistics @sillylinguistics.com · 28/05/2025

The story behind names of places and countries is often very interesting

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Silly Linguistics @sillylinguistics.com · 26/05/2025

Modern English is a tranwreck between the Saxon language (and the language of the Jutes, and the Angles), the Normans and Old Norse (the language of the Vikings)

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Silly Linguistics @sillylinguistics.com · 21/05/2025

English has borrowed a lot of words from Old Norse, including the word for sky

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Silly Linguistics @sillylinguistics.com · 15/05/2025

French gets a lot of vocabulary from the Franks (even their name) who were a Germanic tribe and its the Romance language with the most Germanic derived vocabulary

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Silly Linguistics @sillylinguistics.com · 13/05/2025

Hi @irishlanguage.bsky.social, I run a website all about languages and linguistics and I really enjoyed your article. Are you interested in letting us publish your article on our website? You can also reach us at steve@sillylinguistics.com Thanks!

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Silly Linguistics @sillylinguistics.com · 13/05/2025

Spanish and Catalan are both Romance languages and therefore share a lot of vocabulary but they are not always the same

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Silly Linguistics @sillylinguistics.com · 27/02/2025

Oh, interesting. It's funny how languages borrow words but also use the differently

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Silly Linguistics @sillylinguistics.com · 26/02/2025

Its like the breathy "wh" (w with a breath) you hear in some older speakers in words like what and where

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Silly Linguistics @sillylinguistics.com · 26/02/2025

No worries :) I try to have a broad range of content for linguists, linguistically minded but also people who just like words

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Silly Linguistics @sillylinguistics.com · 25/02/2025

This is just for the comic and the website. For more general language memes I have bsky.app/profile/stev...

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Silly Linguistics @sillylinguistics.com · 21/02/2025

German never went through this so the words are more German like Anwalt for lawyer, Beklagte for defendant and Ankläger for prosecutor. I wonder what these words would be in English if 1066 had never happened

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Silly Linguistics @sillylinguistics.com · 21/02/2025

Well, French was the language of the upper class and of government for hundreds of years. English would eventually re-emerge as a language of government but by that point people were so used to using the French terms for government things that it just stuck

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Silly Linguistics @sillylinguistics.com · 13/02/2025

"Vielleicht kan ich schreiben Deutsch mit nur Englisch Wörter" or "Maybe I can write German with only English words"

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Silly Linguistics @sillylinguistics.com · 12/02/2025

In English most verbs form their past tense with -ed, such as land, landed. But others form their past tense by changing the vowel such as sit, sat. It would be cooler if more verbs did that

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Silly Linguistics @sillylinguistics.com · 11/02/2025

Literally translated it is "Beef labeling surveillance assignment transfer law" or "Law dealing with the supervision of the labeling of beef". Famous only because of how long it is. The word has no use outside of law or pages that talk about languages like this one

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Silly Linguistics @sillylinguistics.com · 11/02/2025

Knowing long, complicated and rarely used word is not the same as knowing a language. Also, in German orthography nouns in a compound are just written together without spaces. In English we do use spaces but a compound noun would have the same meaning as the corresponding German noun with spaces

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Silly Linguistics @sillylinguistics.com · 11/02/2025

Yeah. Xhosa and Zulu are like Afrikaans and Dutch. Sometimes very similar

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Silly Linguistics @sillylinguistics.com · 10/02/2025

Who here learns in the moment German? I think that German very fun is

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Silly Linguistics @sillylinguistics.com · 10/02/2025

Oh cool. I am also South African. I love languages and I want to learn some of the home grown South African languages. I am based in Cape Town. And you?

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Silly Linguistics @sillylinguistics.com · 10/02/2025

That's my favourite thing to do. I love making fun stuff and teaching a bit at the same time :D

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Silly Linguistics @sillylinguistics.com · 07/02/2025

English is what is called stress timed which means that the timing of the words depends on the stress on those words. Japanese words are combinations of only about 100 possible syllables and they all are given equal timing

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Silly Linguistics @sillylinguistics.com · 06/02/2025

It's so funny learning another language. It reframes everything. You know you know your own language so when you can't understand something you know they had to be mumbling. But if they mumble in another language you think maybe you are just bad at the language. Anyone else had this happen?

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Silly Linguistics @sillylinguistics.com · 05/02/2025

Issue #80 is now available. Learn about the language of Moksha of the Uralic family and read a discussion of linguistic illusions. Sometimes language is not all it appears. This and more in the next issue of Silly Linguistics sillyli.ng/Ktcqun

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Silly Linguistics @sillylinguistics.com · 04/02/2025

Russian "как" comes from PIE *kʷós (“who”) but Afrikaans "kak" is probably just an onomatopoeia or imitative

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