EinatYahav to science@lemmy.world · 1 year agoA new look at our linguistic rootsarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square4linkfedilinkarrow-up123arrow-down10
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minus-squaresome_guy@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-21 year agoIf this article is interesting to you, and you speak English, I have a book to recommend: Highly Irregular: Why Tough, Through, and Dough Don’t Rhyme―And Other Oddities of the English Language And a podcast with the author: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/corpse-corps-horse-and-worse/ It turns out there are a lot of good (as in explainable) reasons why the language is so fucked up and broken. I found this a fascinating read. Edit: Also, check out The Great Vowel Shift.
If this article is interesting to you, and you speak English, I have a book to recommend:
Highly Irregular: Why Tough, Through, and Dough Don’t Rhyme―And Other Oddities of the English Language
And a podcast with the author:
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/corpse-corps-horse-and-worse/
It turns out there are a lot of good (as in explainable) reasons why the language is so fucked up and broken. I found this a fascinating read.
Edit: Also, check out The Great Vowel Shift.
Also !linguistics@mander.xyz !