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How the words we teach English language learners changed (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-02 | by The Pudding | tags: general service list, new general service list, english language learners

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Study uncovers lost 'golden age' of languages (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-30 | by Mike Cummings | tags: yale, claire bowern, roman empire

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What happens when you put AI to work deciphering lost languages? (arstechnica.com)

2026-07-29 | tags: linear a, etruscan, rosetta stone

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Humanity spoke thousands of languages at the dawn of farming — now many of them are lost (feeds.nature.com)

2026-07-23 | by Kreier | tags: rosetta stone, egyptian hieroglyphs, language extinction

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New Paper Proposes What Really Causes AI Psychosis (futurism.com)

2026-06-23 | by Maggie Harrison Dupré | get AI Psychosis Research Book → | tags: chatbots, ai psychosis, king’s college london

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Amateur may have cracked Linear A (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-19 | get Linear A Decipherment Book → | tags: linear a, minoan script, linear b

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Vanishing tongues and life on Mars: Books in brief (feeds.nature.com)

2026-05-22 | by Robinson | get Mars colonization kit → | tags: indigenous languages, mars colonization, scott solomon

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Lost in translation: The linguistic challenges facing N. Korean defectors (2025) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-01 | by Moon Dong Wook | get Language Learning for Korean → | tags: north korean defectors, hangul, pyongyang dialect

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Lost Copy of the Oldest-Known English Poem Discovered in a Rome Library (gizmodo.com)

2026-04-30 | get Ancient Manuscript Replica Kit → | tags: english language, rome library, old english poem

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Sperm Whales Speak With a Complex Alphabet and Even Have ‘Vowels,’ Study Finds (gizmodo.com)

2026-04-16 | get Underwater Communication Device → | tags: sperm whales, linguistics, vowels

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Wit, unker, Git: The lost medieval pronouns of English intimacy (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-09 | tags: wit, medieval pronouns, english language

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Project Hail Mary is in theaters—but do the linguistics work? (arstechnica.com)

2026-03-20 | get Linguistics Puzzle Game → | tags: project hail mary, andy weir, ars technica

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Love of corporate bullshit is correlated with bad judgment (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-19 | get Corporate Leadership Book → | tags: linguistics, semantic drift, enshittification

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Because Algospeak (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-07 | by Tim Bray | get Algorithms → | tags: bbs, listserv, irc

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For the First Time, AI Analyzes Language as Well as a Human Expert (wired.com)

2025-12-14 | by Steve Nadis | get Language Generator → | tags: language, language models, linguistic

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Viral Language (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | by Jan | get Microsoft Surface Laptop → | tags: aleksic, algospeak, language