Language Log
Differential retention of sinographs across East Asia
ChatG(epetto)P(inocchio)T
Battle of the typefaces: Times New Roman vs. Calibri
"Devil" with an initial "dr-" consonant cluster
Granddaddy of empty lies (with tons of puns)
Anti-we
Voices as instruments, instruments as voices
The conceptual origins of "brainwashing"
Why are Japanese still using kanji?
"Blue Velvet" vocal
"Dognitive Science" again
TGTM: Hong Kong on fire
Poor walruses
Human Washing Machine
The many purposes and functions of ancient manuscripts from early 2nd-century BC China
A new kind of lost in translation
Vietnam in the Sinographic Cosmopolis
Pets with buttons
Dying minority languages in Europe
Polysemous Han
Scope of "more than"
Parsing of a fated kin tattoo
In search of lost/spare/wasted time
The strongest Indian accent
The cruelty of (some) thesis supervisors
Canting in Sinitic (and other) languages
Friendsgiving
A garden-path headline from the Washington Post
More on algorithmic culture
A German neologism coined in English
Happy World Linguistics Day
AI in education
Canting Crew words
Isidore of Seville and his Etymologiae (7th c. AD)
The Canting Crew
Weirdly specific words
"LLM Council"
Gendered word counts again
Comparative Common Shē and Common Neo-Hakka
L'error
Ask LLOG: Alternative standard pronunciations?
Uyghurish Mandarin and shrike-tongued barbarians
LSA Virtual Attendance Option
Why telephonic transmission requires the creation of a spelling alphabet
Errorist returns
6-7
Canton
Analogy of the week
The syllabicity of spoken "Canton" and "Akron"
Phrase-final Prepositions rise from the grave again
Australian WOTY vote
Girlsemanticsatiation
Yet another sinographic stumbling block for Chinese modernization
Can't even
Double Dutch
Northeastern topolect expressions
"Cant-idates"
Passing strangers
Abstand und ausbau, part 2
Grading
Sumerian double negative (and fart joke)
Fake Indian accents (by an Indian)
Hangul as a global alphabet manque
Strange prescriptions
Dungans at Penn
Sweeping rakes
Politeness levels for saying "Ohayō gozaimasu"
How to transcribe the name of the ruler of the PRC
Hybrid language (Japanese)
Are you OK?
Top Tier Taobao Trick or Treat T-shirt
Punjabi word salad
The formative stage of Sinitic romanization
Language variation writ large
Abstand und ausbau
Scribes as Scheiße
Pitch accent in Japanese
Keelung ("chicken coop")
The Oldest (Known) Song Ever
Ancient Greek doȗle (voc.) 'slave' through time and space
Schleicher's PIE "The Sheep and the Horses" (reprise)
The gender of a key
Sacré bleu!
French girl sells crêpes in a Taiwan market, part 2
What good are kanji?
Spontaneities
L-complex
Characters at hand
Unofficial simplified characters
The (ir)reality of the MingKwai typewriter
How to pronounce the name of the ruler of the PRC
Semiliterate restaurant Chinese
AI to the rescue of a Greek philosopher's work buried by Vesuvius
Steve Anderson, RIP
Free-er indirect speech
"Think" in Japanese
Meh
"Moloch's bargain"?
The tyranny of literacy
America-vectorized units
The niceties of German grammar
Disposal bin
Literacy: peasants and philosophers
Correspondences between Ancient Greek doȗle (voc.) 'slave' and 奴隷 Jpn dorei / Tw lô·-lē
More conjoined pronoun case counts
The invention of English
Barriers between you and I?
"The insane effort to preserve this ancient script"
"Prepositions are tricky"
Different from/than/to?
Study Reveals America's Most Searched Slang Words 2025 / OHIO; mayonnaise
Death from overwork
"Between you and I"
Intentional for good
Top Gun photoshop fail
AAA
The singularity of stupid
"Long-held assumptions"?
The difficulty of borrowing in Chinese
Maxwell next?
Vernacular and classical fiction in late imperial China
Discourse on the AI Method of Rightly Reasoning
AI: Not taking jobs yet?
Freudian slip of the century: "Let's stop attacking pedophiles"
Sino-Japanese n- / d- initial interchange
Stay hyDRAEted
"It can only good happen"?
Charlie Hustle in the AI industry
"Slav-ishly devoted"