Language Learning Blogs

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• WTF?! We need a game-night game about profanity! — Want a game-night game that actually uses profanity? After spotting The Troll Pub's WTF happy hour in Louisville, I hunt
• Strong bad mature filthy language — Ever noticed how many euphemisms hide the word swearing? In this post I trace the meanings of phrases like mature langua
• Asterisks for the f*n of it — Curious about the asterisk trend in online swearing? I trace Blackbird Spyplane’s playful bleeping, cite New York Times
• The further adventures of “AF” — From Thinx subway ads and a Bay Bridge billboard to Everlane backpacks and a line in The Incredible Jessica James, AF ha
• Jackson Lamb and the Slow Horses Learn How to Spell Profanity — Want to learn how Jackson Lamb turns profanity into craft? In this close reading of Mick Herron's Slough House novels, I
• The Octothorpe, Part 2 — I carry the octothorpe into the age of touch-tone phones, programming and social media, showing how this once-obscure pr
• The Pilcrow — I trace the pilcrow back to ancient Greece and Rome, from boustrophedon inscriptions and scriptio continua to the first
• “Quotation marks” or ‘inverted commas’? — I pick apart “quotation marks” and ‘inverted commas’, house styles, scare quotes and all, with examples from British and
• Book spine poem: All the Pieces Matter — A book spine poem built from crime, language and Wire‑ish titles, about how all the pieces matter when you’re paying att
• What is the difference between a shiv and a shank? — I went down a strange rabbit hole on prison slang and improvised weapons. This post looks at the difference between a sh