I ended the last post with my observation that    all changes to language are fine and acceptable – except for the ones I don’t like . This ...

I’ve just nicely started reading a new language book and want to share some thoughts from it. Robert Lane Greene is a writer who lives in...

There are two opposing philosophies in the history of linguistics which can be summed up as prescriptivism and descriptivism . Should lingu...

The Indo-European Language Family Indo-European was the first language family to be identified. This discovery, and the beginning of mo...

In Chapter 6 “The Archaeology of Language” of his book The Horse, the Wheel, and Language , David W. Anthony uses the colonization of North...

In linguistic circles Jacob Grimm (1785-1863) is better known for his discovery of phonetic changes in the development of Proto-Germanic th...

On a whirlwind visit from Ukraine to his family in Canada , my big brother of Blog Fodder fame returned yesterday a book I had loaned him a...