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.

THE EXTRAORDINARY WORLD OF HIDDEN MODIFIERS

Linguistics 101

MIND’S SUSCEPTIBILITY TO THEPERFORMADOX COGNITIVE DEFUSION & PERFORMATIVE HYPOTHESIS

WRITING AND CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT ARE NOT CORRELATED.

J. R. R. Tolkien and Finnish, Maritime mythology and Finnish, and other theories pertaining to Finnish • Part two of: “The mystical nature of Finnish & of language in Finland”

RECEPTIVE BILINGUALISM I understand it, but I can’t speak it.