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January 31, 2004
Here are the 2003 “Grow-a-Brain” Language Links
100 words most often misspelled
1,342 languages at "The Rosetta Project" - comparative linguistic research and education - 1/7/04
2000 Languages at "The Language Museum"
2 lists of Clichés as long as your arm, (from the extensive 'Electric Eclectic ')
An ambigram, or Inversion is a word or a group of words which can be read in at least two different ways. (The one on the right here spells "Illuminatti".) Scott Kim, the premiere ambigram artist has many links to samples in different languages - 11/3/03
Acronym Finder and Acronym Dictionary
Anagram anything and The Winners of the Anagrammy Awards
ASL primer and ASL Fingerspelling
Bad Haiku and The Periodic Table of Haiku
Corpus Scriptorum Latinorum, a digital library assembling the entire corpus of Latin Literature (From "Mirabilis") - 8/3/03
Esperanto, (Thanks, Gayle. Finally you send me a link!) - 10/24/03
Inventing an alphabet, real or pretend (From Cox Crow)
In what language do deaf people think? The reply is from Cecil's "Straight Dope" - 12/30/03
"It's Too Hot" in many languages (From the BBC) - 8/29/03
Language sites on the internet
How to say "Ouch" in many languages : Monstra mihi pecuniam!
Legalese - Eschew, Evade, and/or Eradicate Legalese
Linguistics Anomalies"Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them", from Peter Norvig's Familiar and Unfamiliar Quotations - 12/29/03
Merriam-Webster's and Oxford English Dictionary's Word of the day
"More armpits than brain cells?" - The Canonical List of Fulldeckisms (As in, "He's not playing with a full deck.") Total entries: 1488
Mother Tongues - tracing the roots of Computer Languages
New York Jargon , A guide from ”The Morning News”
Numbers from 1 to 10 in Over 4500 Languages. (From "J-Walk" ) - 11/27/03
One-Liners: "I still miss my ex-wife, but my aim is improving."
Online Rhyming Dictionary for poetry & songwriting - 12/13/03
Oxymorons and Pleonasms, their opposites Palindromes, Political Palindromes and The longest Palindrome
Patrick O'Brian's Nautical Expressions in the Vernacular
Phrontistery, an rich source of etymology and rare English words
"Principles of Newspeak", An appendix to "1984" (Written by George Orwell in 1948). Un-words (Politically Incorrect) examples: Factories replaced by "Plants", Illegal Aliens replaced by "Undocumented Immigrants", Secretary replaced by "Administrative Assistant"... - 11/15/03
Pun of the Day : "Those who jump off a Paris bridge are in Seine"... - 11/29/03
"Quotes, Quotes, Quotes" and Brainy Quotes
Recently-Coined phrases at "WordSpy"
Saul Gorn's Rarely used clichés
"Scifaiku", haiku about science-fiction (From "Daily Jive") - 12/4/03
Speech accent archive (From "Boing Boing") - 1/15/04
Spoonerism are phrases, sentences, or words in language with swapped sounds
Teen Lingo : "Girl, you be jawsin . . . you're jus' selling woof tickets" - 11/9/03
The F-word , The French Connection UK and "Expletive deleted" It has been taboo for more than 500 years. But from fcuk to Four Weddings and a Funeral, the f-word has become so commonplace it now seems acceptable in everyday conversation. Is it no longer obscene? And if it isn't, what is? - 11/7/03
The last word from the latest post is up for grabs. It's the acronym for the next (From "Evhead" )
Translate anything with "Babelfish"
Turkish proverbs (From "Bifurcated Rivets" ) - 10/15/03
Witty Quote of the Day - Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
Word Games - 1300 images! (From Graham Toal)
Word Pirates , Take Back pirated Words and Phrases - 9/19/03
Wordplay and Word of the day in 100 Languages
Yiddish - 10/17/03
You've heard of Engrish and Spanglish before, now here is Chinglish - 11/2/03
What is the most beautiful sounding combination of words in the English language? - 12/21/03
Many More Unusual Lingulogiscal Links Here
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