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Language, Linguistic & Symbols

10 Tips for Building a Visual Language
Web Designer Depot
12 Words that Survived by being Fossilized in idioms
Pocket
14 Fascinating & Untranslatable Words
pocket
A Beautiful Dictionary of Symbols
Open Culture
Analyzing an Alien Language - Arrival, Logograms and Wolfram
wolfram
English is not a normal language
Aeon
How Capicola became Gabagoo - the Italian New Jersey Accent
pocket
How Changes in the Words you Hear Impact your thinking
pocket
How Did a Self-Taught Linguist Come to Own an Indigenous Language?
new yorker
How I learned French in 12 months
runwes
How Klingon accidentally became a real Language
tedium
Intro to Probabilistic Language Understanding
problang
Learning Chinese - 5 Things I should have Known
scotthyoung
Linguistic Fundamentals for NLP
KDnuggets
Reading is a Uniquely Human thing
Nautilus
Rise and Fall of the Status Pineapple
bbc
Talking to Yourself is a Technology for Thinking
Psyche
The Family that couldn't say "Hippopotamus"
Nautilus
The Hobo Code
Open Culture
The L-System
Wikipedia
The Mystery of People who speak Dozens of Languages
New Yorker
The Owl's Right Eye
unintended consequences
The Secret Language of Signs
slate
The Secret Messages inside Chinese URLs
New Republic
The mind-blowing secret of the Armenian Alphabet
peopleofar
The undecipherable Rongorongo script of Easter Island
cabinetmagazine
What the Sound of Your Name Says About You
BBC
When Stan became a Verb
The Outline
Why 40% of Vietnamese People have the same Last Name
pocket
Why Arabic is Terrific
idlewords
Why Danger Symbols can't last Forever
99percentinvisible
Why Japanese Web Design is so Different
randomwire
Why Red means Red in almost every Language
Nautilus
Why Robot Brains need Symbols
pocket
Why Symbols aren't Forever
Nautilus
Why do we Gesture when we Talk?
pocket
Why the French love to say No
bbc
idioms dictionary
idioms-online