LANGUAGE

The Atlantic: [|I Am Gal, Hear Me Roar--//It's time to reclaim the female version of "guy."//]

[|The art of visual punning]--A New York designer uses wordplay as the inspiration for her funny, creative brain teasers

[|Dictionary of American Regional English reaches final volume]

[|The Most Popular Chinese Movie of All Time--It’s a Western. It’s a comedy. It’s a critique of corruption. It’s a send-up of the Chinese movie industry. It’s going to confuse the hell out of Americans.]

NYT: [|Young Women Often Trendsetters in Vocal Patterns]

[|When Did Douche Become an Insult? And what exactly does it mean?]

[|Did You See This? Downtown Abbey Anachronisms]

Episode 1: [|Where //Did// That Sentence-Ending Preposition Rule Come From?] Episode 2: [|The Other F-Word--Listen to //**Slate**//’s show about the history and future of the word //faggot.//] Episode 3: [|Between You and I--Listen to **//Slate//**’s show about a grammar mistake that won’t die.] Episode 4: [|Is Black English a Dialect or a Language? Listen to **//Slate//**’s show about America’s fraught relationship with Ebonics.] Episode 5: [|The Story of //Ain’t//]--Listen to //Slate//’s show about the most controversial dictionary ever published. Episode 6:[|The Meaning of Scrabble]--Listen to **//Slate//**’s show about how much language really matters in the hugely popular word game.
 * [|Slate--Lexicon Valley]:**

[|The answer to the most famous unanswerable fantasy riddle]

[|Catchphrase Executioner-Bad sex jargon, horrible “occupy” jokes, and other terrible things we said this year.]

[|Hearing Bilingual--How Babies Sort Out Language]

[|More college women speak in creaks, thanks to pop stars]

[|Why people with a sweet tooth are just generally sweeter people]

NYT: [|In "Game of Thrones," a language to make the world feel real]

Smithsonian: [|The Science of Sarcasm? Yeah, Right--How do humans separate sarcasm from sincerity? Research on the subject is leading to insights about how the mind works. Really]

NYT:[| Software that Listens for Lies]

[|Ape hand gestures reveal where humans evolved language]

[|The evolution of deceit] New discoveries show that fibs and self-deception are central to our evolutionary strategy. An expert explains

[|Google Translate: It Already Speaks as Well as a 10-Year-Old. How Good Can it Get?]

[|Being too polite to your waitress may cost you money]

[[http://io9.com/5850293/10-words-you-might-think-came-from-science-but-are-really-from-science-fiction|10 Words You Might Think Came from Science (But Are Really From Science Fiction  )]]

[|Attention Must Be Paid--How the Internet is changing how people listen.] Interesting example of a definition paper.

[|Cryptophasia--The secrets of twin speak.]

[|Are There Hidden Messages in Pronouns? James Pennebaker says computers reveal secret patterns.]

[|That's So Mysto--What makes slang stick?]

[|The dirty words we dare not say--My parents instilled in me a bone-deep hatred of gross terminology. It makes being a grown-up tricky sometimes]

[|What a Copycat]--Why do we call imitators "cats"? Why not monkeys?

[|Lying is part of child's development, study confirms]

[|Sophie’s Choice and Other Choice Choices]

[|Questioning the Inca Paradox--] [|Did the civilization behind Machu Picchu really fail to develop a written language?]

[|The Bilingual Advantage]: Interview with Ellen Bialystok. By CLAUDIA DREIFUS: Among other benefits, the regular use of two languages appears to delay the onset of Alzheimer’s disease symptoms.

[|The Rise of "Logical Punctuation".]: The period outside the quotation marks is //not// a copy error.

[|Science reveals what you need to do to talk people into anything]