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@WordAficionada

Linguistic Anthropologist spreading the love for language, so come on and give me some sugar.

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Joined June 2008
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The OED@OED24 Oct 2014
Instrophiate - a rare word which can mean 'put on as a headband'.
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Music: keeping the #Mohawk #language alive through song #langnews fb.me/3xnzWH4Zi
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Alaska's indigenous languages attain official status gu.com/p/42yzk/tw via @guardian
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Election dispute highlights Navajo Nation divide over language via @AJAM alj.am/1w0siLn
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Hyperlingo@hyperlingo24 Apr 2014
Microbes provide insights into evolution of human #language phys.org/news/2014-04-microb…
Microbes provide insights into evolution of human language

Microbes provide insights into evolution of human language

Big brains do not explain why only humans use sophisticated language, according to researchers who have discovered that even a species of pond life communicates by similar methods.

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Language Log@LanguageLog24 Apr 2014
Identify Mystery Text, Win $1000: From the University Chicago Library News: Calling all historians of cryptogr... bit.ly/1jVfWM4
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By the 26th century BC, the #cuneiform script had been adapted to write Akkadian. fb.me/1qhEcHGCn
Writing Systems | About World Languages

Writing Systems | About World Languages

A writing system, also referred to as script or orthography, is a convention for representing the units of a spoken language by making marks on rocks, leaves, clay, bark, metal, or paper.

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12 verb tenses table learning English grammar tenses | @scoopit sco.lt/9NHsOn
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Octroy (v trans.) - Of a government etc.: concede or grant (a privilege etc.). tmblr.co/ZvRT5v1CN3WO1 #wotd

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Octroy (v trans.) - Of a government etc.: concede or grant (a privilege etc.).

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Periapt (n) - An amulet. tmblr.co/ZvRT5v1B-Fk8U #wotd

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Periapt (n) - An amulet.

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Repine (v trans.) - 1 Cause trouble to. 2 (v intrans.) Feel or express regretful dissatisfaction; fret, complain. #wotd
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Language Log@LanguageLog30 Mar 2014
PSDS: Linguists are generally scornful of "eye dialect", in both of the common meanings of that term: As an "u... bit.ly/1leZcRT
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#NYTimes column by Teddy Wayne, "On Internet Slang, IMHO," has comments by Pat: is.gd/K6KqBg #grammar #etymology #linguistics
On Internet Slang, IMHO (Published 2014)

On Internet Slang, IMHO (Published 2014)

The brevity of modern conversation can prove daunting.

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The OED@OED25 Mar 2014
Historical synonyms for 'talkative person' include blabberer, clatterfart, bablatrice, twattle-basket, nimble-chops, & jawsmith.
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All #NaDené languages, except for Apache and Navajo, are seriously endangered or on the verge of extinction. fb.me/3Bndua7Wy
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Deprehend (v trans.) - 1 Take by surprise; catch in the act. b Seize, capture, arrest. 2 Detect, discover; perceive, understand. #WOTD
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Panegyric (n) - 1 A public speech or published text in praise of someone or something; a laudatory discourse; a eulogy. 2 High praise. #WOTD
Tor (n) - A rocky peak or hill, esp. in Cornwall or Devon. Formerly also, a (pile of) rocks on the top of a hill. #WOTD #English #language
Resupine (adj) - 1 Listless, apathetic. 2 Lying on the back; inclined backwards. #WOTD #English #language
Scoparin (n) - A yellow crystalline pigment found in broom flowers, with diuretic properties. #WOTD #language #English
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