Silly Linguistics Magazine

08 August, 2025

On the Shoulders of Giants: When Metaphor Isn't Metaphor By Brandy Cross Are you feeling "melancholic" or "sanguine"? How ancient medical philosophy has left a lasting mark on Modern English By Steve the vagabond Minecraft's Alvdalen By Patricia Syner Palum: The New Word Quenching Indonesia's Thirst for Language By Baihaqi Hakim Mursalin Towers, floods, and cosmos: what the myths tell us about language origins By Joana Atanasova Oh No, The Main Character Got Baked into the Syntax! Judith Aissen's Case for Abstract Obviation By Nico Hammer On non-Norse language in Iceland, and Icelandic magical staves - a mysterious symbolic language By Linden Alexander Pentecost