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John McWhorter
Are Elvish, Klingon, Dothraki and Na'vi real languages?
4:12
John McWhorter
A brief history of plural word...s
4:19
Kelli Sandman-Hurley
What is dyslexia?
4:45
Terisa Folaron
Comma story
13:12
Stephen Burt
Why people need poetry
13:48
John McWhorter
Txtng is killing language. JK!!!
8:10
Saki Mafundikwa
Ingenuity and elegance in ancient African alphabets
15:43
Ajit Narayanan
A word game to communicate in any language
14:38
Denise Herzing
Could we speak the language of dolphins?
6:10
ShaoLan
Learn to read Chinese ... with ease!
9:35
Daniel H. Cohen
For argument's sake
14:12
Suzanne Talhouk
Don't kill your language
3:15
Gina Cooke
Why is there a "b" in doubt?
3:00
Christopher Warner
Situational irony: The opposite of what you think
4:53
Kate Gardoqui
How did English evolve?
3:35
Nadia Kalman
Three anti-social skills to improve your writing
12:13
Keith Chen
Could your language affect your ability to save money?
7:04
Mark Forsyth
What's a snollygoster? A short lesson in political speak
3:57
Terry Moore
Why is 'x' the unknown?
4:26
Jean-Baptiste Michel
The mathematics of history
16:00
Chris Bliss
Comedy is translation
5:04
Carvens Lissaint
"Put the financial aid in the bag"
20:10
Mark Pagel
How language transformed humanity
16:39
Luis von Ahn
Massive-scale online collaboration
15:42
Sandra Fisher-Martins
The right to understand
19:52
Deb Roy
The birth of a word
17:01
Rajesh Rao
A Rosetta Stone for a lost language
10:35
Patricia Ryan
Don't insist on English!
10:17
Patricia Kuhl
The linguistic genius of babies
19:45
Ethan Zuckerman
Listening to global voices
4:26
Alan Siegel
Let's simplify legal jargon!
9:30
James Geary
Metaphorically speaking
4:34
Jay Walker
The world's English mania
16:25
Tim Ferriss
Smash fear, learn anything
15:50
Erin McKean
The joy of lexicography
2:15
Murray Gell-Mann
The ancestor of language
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