Daily Archives: April 22, 2017

Wilhelmiina Toivo, a PhD candidate at the University of Glasgow, describes her study, which is attempting to explain why bilinguals seem to have a “reduced emotional resonance” in their second language: https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2017/mar/27/bad-language-why-being-bilingual-makes-swearing-easier

Here is a nice introduction to Proto-Indo-European, including a discussion of its homeland and a recording of what it might have sounded like: http://bigthink.com/philip-perry/half-of-all-languages-come-from-one-root-language-how-it-spread-is-something-of-debate

Kory Stamper, a lexicographer at Merriam Webster, has just published a book entitled Word by Work, the Secret Life of Dictionaries. Here is a preview: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/22/books/merriam-webster-dictionary-kory-stamper.html?_r=1

This article suggests that lexicography (especially in America) has always been political: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/15/opinion/sunday/americas-uncivil-war-over-words.html?mwrsm=Email