Silly Linguistics

We here at Silly Linguistics love language and linguistics and want to share it with the world. Have you ever wondered why English spelling was so weird? Have you ever wondered where words come from? Well, in this magazine we cover all this and more. We talk to linguists and ask them all sorts of interesting questions about language. We talk to language lovers and talk to them about their highs and lows of language learning.

ASL? “Sign” me up! • Do you recall the last time you landed on the moon? Yeah, didn’t think so. Neither do I. However, I can recall the very last time I experienced a moment about as surreal.

STAR TREK • WOULD THE TAMARIAN LANGUAGE ACTUALLY WORK?

THE RICH SALAD OF PRONOUNS IN INDONESIAN LANGUAGES

Identity

SPEAK LIKE YODA YOU CAN. LIKE YODA SPEAK CAN YOU. CONFUSED, I AM.

Trivia • Welcome to the first Silly Linguistics Quiz. My name is Forest, and I’m a trivia writer and host of FWD Trivia on the West Coast of the USA. Here I’ll be doing a regular quiz for all of you with the goal of sharing my love for both puzzles and language. This month's quiz has a miscellaneous theme. Feel free to let me know how you did and if you have any thoughts about this or for future quizzes!