Silly Linguistics Magazine

13 September 2024

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. We discuss etymology and where words come from. We look at the social impact of words and how words shape the world around us. Languages are fundamentally human and they touch all parts of our lives. We seek to explore how language shapes our lives and the world around us. How do different groups use language and what can that teach us about being human. Discover all this and more in our magazine Silly Linguistics. Inside Issue 75, you will find: Drawn from Memory - Empowering learning with creativity By Chris Davy Staying positive around negativity: expletive negation (with examples from Serbian) By Neda Stefanović Are Romance Languages Mutually intelligible? By Wilson Opaluwa Chile: Does Language Death Equal Culture Death? By Reagan O'Brien Words in bloom: The Victorian Language of Flowers By Catherine Muxworthy An ancient temple, languages in the Bock saga, and some similarities between Finnish and Quechua (with temple photo) Part one of: "The mystical nature of Finnish & of language in Finland" By Linden Alexander Pentecost