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The Thinking of Speaking
Issue #9 May / June 2014
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Constructed Languages
Making It All Up
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Artificially made languages, called "constructed languages", or conlangs, are a large part of the language world, having their own purposes. They also sometimes bring out strong emotions in people.
Language Conflicts
Flemish vs. Walloon
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When two languages fight for dominance in the same country, the outcome is usually either violence or separation. For now, Belgium is managing to avoid those, but just barely.
Rohonc Codex
Hungarian Enigma
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The Voynich Manuscript isn't the only volume of text and images that hasn't been translated. The Rohonc Codex is another mystery, although not as well known.
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Constructed Languages
Making It All Up
Artificially made languages, called "constructed languages", or conlangs, are a large part of the language world, having their own purposes. They also sometimes bring out strong emotions in people.
Language Conflicts
Flemish vs. Walloon
When two languages fight for dominance in the same country, the outcome is usually either violence or separation. For now, Belgium is managing to avoid those, but just barely.
Rohonc Codex
Hungarian Enigma
The Voynich Manuscript isn't the only volume of text and images that hasn't been translated. The Rohonc Codex is another mystery, although not as well known.
COLUMNS
Letter From The Editor
Tracing Words
Finding the origins of a language help us categorize it with similar languages, but did you know that even individual words can be traced to different origins?
At the Cinema
Il Comandante e la Cicogna - Garibaldi's Lovers
Lovers meet in a number of strange ways, and Leo and Diana are two that find that out. They find each other amid an illegal scheme and a stork.
Where Are You?
Guess the city and country from the article and picture.
Words in Your Mouth
Sausage
In "Words in Your Mouth" we examine the etymologies of various food names. This month is the very tasty "sausage" and its foreign equivalences.
Book Look
Two short reviews of language related books.
GlobTech
Using Locale
When creating a multilingual site, it can be time consuming to properly format dates for each language of the site. Fortunately, PHP provides a solution with the "locale"...
IN OTHER ISSUES
Linguistics Love Song
In time for Valentine's day is this song to sing to your linguist lover.
Mixing Languages and Relationships
With Valentine's Day coming soon, many of us are thinking about our relationships. Our love of languages can be a major part of those, but not always in a good way.
The Rosetta Stone
Triple Cypher
In Egypt, the key to unlocking the mysterious hieroglyphics, the Rosetta Stone, was caught up in the lives of a boy king, a French general, and the work of two scholars, ...
Revisited
Slang
English slang develops in many ways, even adopting and distorting words from other languages. We look back to an article from almost one hundred years ago to see how accu...
Chatting in Languages Online
Part 2: Voice Chats
This is the second part of our article on online chats. It talks about using voice chats, specifically Team Speak and Skype, and the problems with getting people using th...
Pencak Silat
Martial arts are prominant in many Asian cultures, not just as fighting styles but as ways to spiritual harmony. One form which is rarely talked about is found in Indones...
Which Language Is...?
People love to ask questions about languages and language learning. There are a variety of them that really can't be answered, and it those that we will attempt to answer...
How it All Started: PluraLing
PluraLing is one of the newest language learning apps available today, and its creator, Guy Catz, gives us the background on it and tells how it can work for you.
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