Words

Lingua Franca 2024-05-14

Summary:

Ellen Gutoskey, "15 Fascinating Linguistics Terms You Didn't Learn in School", Mental Floss 5/10/2024: Grade school English teachers do their best to send you off into the world with at least a cursory understanding of how language works. Maybe you can tell your dependent clauses from your independent ones and your transitive verbs from your intransitive ones. […]

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https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=64033&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=words-2

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words

Authors:

Mark Liberman

Date tagged:

05/14/2024, 10:42

Date published:

05/14/2024, 10:23