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.

DRAWN FROM MEMORY EMPOWERING LEARNING WITH CREATIVITY

STAYING POSITIVE AROUND NEGATIVITY • EXPLETIVE NEGATION (WITH EXAMPLES FROM SERBIAN)

ARE ROMANCE LANGUAGES MUTUALLY INTELLIGIBLE?

CHILE DOES Language DEATH EQUAL Culture DEATH?

Words in bloom • THE VICTORIAN LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS

An ancient temple, languages in the Bock sa-ga, and some similarities between Finnish and Quechua (with temple photo) • Part one of: “The mystical nature of Finnish & of language in Finland”