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Playing With Language

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Where do new words come from? - Marcel Danesi
5:44
How to use rhetoric to get what you want - Camille A. Langston
4:30
One of the most difficult words to translate... - Krystian Aparta
3:48
How interpreters juggle two languages at once - Ewandro Magalhaes
4:56
The pleasure of poetic pattern - David Silverstein
4:47
Does grammar matter? - Andreea S. Calude
4:39
How miscommunication happens (and how to avoid it) - Katherine Hampsten
4:33
How did clouds get their names? - Richard Hamblyn
5:07
How computers translate human language - Ioannis Papachimonas
4:45
Buffalo buffalo buffalo: One-word sentences and how they work - Emma Bryce
3:28
Where did English come from? - Claire Bowern
4:54
Why Shakespeare loved iambic pentameter - David T. Freeman and Gregory Taylor
5:22
The language of lying — Noah Zandan
5:42
How languages evolve - Alex Gendler
4:03
The true story of 'true' - Gina Cooke
4:28
Speech acts: Constative and performative - Colleen Glenney Boggs
3:57
Are Elvish, Klingon, Dothraki and Na'vi real languages? - John McWhorter
5:21
Birth of a nickname - John McWhorter
4:57
Shakespearean dating tips - Anthony John Peters
2:25
A brief history of plural word...s - John McWhorter
4:27
Why is there a "b" in doubt? - Gina Cooke
3:28
How did English evolve? - Kate Gardoqui
5:05
How can you change someone's mind? (hint: facts aren't always enough) - Hugo Mercier
4:40
The race to decode a mysterious language - Susan Lupack
4:45
"Jabberwocky": One of literature's best bits of nonsense
2:11
What happens when you die? A poetic inquiry
2:30
Why do we, like, hesitate when we, um, speak? - Lorenzo García-Amaya
5:34
How to get a word added to the dictionary - Ilan Stavans
5:23
What makes a language... a language? - Martin Hilpert
4:57
A brief history of Spanish - Ilan Stavans
5:22
The secret formula to Agatha Christie's murder mysteries - Jamie Bernthal
5:11
Why don't "tough" and "dough" rhyme? - Arika Okrent
5:34
The secret behind how Chinese characters work - Gina Marie Elia
4:48