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Ampersand (2015)
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Avoidance Speech
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The Diversity of Arabic Scripts
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What Is Anglish?
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Watching a “language” develop when kids can’t speak to each other (2019)
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Poor writing, not specialized concepts, drives difficulty with legal language
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Finnish as a world language?
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NaTakallam – High-quality language services and courses delivered by refugees
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Interslavic Language (2017)
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Slovio, an international simplified Slavic language
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What makes writing more readable?
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Reading Levels: Different Ways to Read Different Books (2018)
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The curious case of the disappearing Polish S (2015)
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Reasons some languages are harder to learn
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Japanese typography: Kilograms of sinograms
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Why the Wingdings Font Exists (2015)
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Rebuilding the spellchecker
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Why are some bilingual people dyslexic in English but not their other language?
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What Chinese looks, feels and sounds like when you're from Korea or Japan (2009)
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Blissymbols
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Learn to read Middle English
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Japanese rules for writing your ABCs are surprisingly strict
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An instant classic about learning ancient Greek
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In Defense of Latin
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“Did You Eat the Whole Cake?” On Learning Estonian
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How Does Esperanto Sound?
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Interslavic Language
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On Language and Humanity: In Conversation with Noam Chomsky
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Prison Gothic: The criminal record written on Hong Kong’s road signs
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English speakers should learn math instead of a second language
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Why Arabic Is Terrific (2011)
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Languages of India
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Sorting in Japanese – An Unsolved Problem (2011)
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World's Writing Systems
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The long, tortuous and fascinating process of creating a Chinese font
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Checklist for Plain Language
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The language of programming
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Different languages: How cultures around the world draw shapes differently
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A Language That Linguists Thought Couldn’t Exist
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How we invented new ways to teach Japanese
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On Chinese Writing: Evolution
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How to create content that works well with screen readers
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Bad Character: If Chinese Were Phonetic
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The miracle of reading and writing Chinese characters
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The Logic Behind Japanese Sentence Structure
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Typing Chinese like English
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Evidence Rebuts Chomsky's Theory of Language Learning
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Japanese writing system basics
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An introduction to Japanese
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Identify Any Language Written in the Roman Alphabet at a Glance
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A lesson in the lost technology of shorthand (2014)
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Why does the the human mind ignore the second "the"?
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Don't Assume It's Difficult Until It Is
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The long process of creating a Chinese font
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An Interactive Guide to Ambiguous Grammar
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Mumbling Isn’t a Sign of Laziness, It’s a Clever Data-Compression Trick
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The curious case of disappearing Polish S
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An Unusual Language That Linguists Thought Couldn’t Exist
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Why Do We Say “Big Red Barn,” But “Red Big Barn” Sounds Wrong?
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What is the rule for adjective order?
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Why Arabic is Terrific
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The Beauty Of Typography: Writing Systems And Calligraphy Of The World
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A Japanese language guide for analytical thinkers
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Why did older computers and OSes use UPPER case instead of lower case?
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How different languages laugh online
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Orthic Shorthand – Write as fast as you type
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The curious case of the disappearing Polish Ś (2015)
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History of Vietnamese Typography
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The beautiful dissociation of the Japanese language
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The Forgotten History of Chinese Keyboards
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Japanese addresses: No street names. Block numbers (2009)
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Japanese words and names sound African (2022)
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