Silly Linguistics

We here at Silly Linguistics love language and linguistics and want to share it with the world. Have you ever wondered why English spelling was so weird? Have you ever wondered where words come from? Well, in this magazine we cover all this and more. We talk to linguists and ask them all sorts of interesting questions about language. We talk to language lovers and talk to them about their highs and lows of language learning.

HOW THE FRENCH, RELIGION, AND THE BUBONIC PLAGUE FORCED ME TO USE THE WORD Y’ALL

THE DEATH OF A LANGUAGE • If you speak a unique language and it becomes harder to find others to converse with, does that language became classified as “Dead” or even worse, an “Extinct Language ?” Who makes the classifications and is there any help for revival?

HÔNG HÔNG AND BÈEP BÈEP THAI’S TAKE ON EVERYDAY SOUNDS

Wrong-O-rongo • THE ANCIENT SCRIPT OF THE EASTERN ISLANDS THAT REMAINS UNTRANSLATED

Linguistics 101 Part 7 - What is historical linguistics?

WIDTH AND DEPTH OF SYMBOL AND METAPHOR

LANGUAGES IN THE PAMIR MOUNTAINS, MORE ON SCNTHIAN LANGUAGE, THE KUSHAN SCRIPT, OTHER TOPICS; AND LANGUAGE AND THE ALMASTN