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• Does American English adhere to the double negative law?

  Asked by SeaTurtle | 43 responses

• Why are certain words so appealing?

  Asked by Haleth | 6 responses

• Did you create your own language? How far did you get?

  Asked by PhiNotPi | 10 responses

• Is there a name for this aspect of written language?

  Asked by Jeruba | 15 responses

• Can you recommend good textbooks for learning the technical aspects of the English language?

  Asked by squirbel | 14 responses

• How to do conversational hypnosis, give embedded commands and manipulate people?

  Asked by gamefu91 | 15 responses

• Can a word exist without a sound or letters?

  Asked by stump | 44 responses

• When did the exclamation "Really?" become an expression of disdain?

  Asked by biggorlk | 15 responses

• Can anyone explain the "cot-caught merger" ?

  Asked by Sweetpea | 15 responses

• What are some other beautiful literary phrases, such as "Cellar Door"?

  Asked by MrsDufresne | 18 responses

• What is a term for co-dependent opposities, in that they wouldn't exist (in definition) without the other?

  Asked by JonnyCeltics | 14 responses

• Do you say "waiting for" or "waiting on"?

  Asked by answerjill | 22 responses

• Are there any statistic research on peoples' use (count) of each character in the alphabet?

  Asked by hced | 11 responses

• How would you re-design fluther to make older questions more accessible and bring them back to life?

  Asked by phoebusg | 70 responses

• Do you think language and in particular terminologies impede the sharing of information, and more importantly how can we overcome that?

  Asked by phoebusg | 10 responses

• Can you help build my collection of funny Spoonerisms?

  Asked by ETpro | 18 responses

• What is the best nickname you've ever heard or given?

  Asked by JonnyCeltics | 26 responses

• Where did the phrase "tongue in cheek" come from?

  Asked by KhiaKarma | 4 responses

• Are there any complete synonyms in English?

  Asked by DominicX | 39 responses

• In an isolated life, what would be the effects of children learning language?

  Asked by Eggie | 6 responses

• Did Noam Chomsky really write this?

  Asked by rexpresso | 5 responses

• If you grow up with absolutely no exposure to language, how do you think?

  Asked by Fiddle_Playing_Creole_Bastard | 40 responses

• Now that refudiate is on its way to the dictionary, what should the newly coined word mean?

  Asked by ETpro | 7 responses

• What's the rationale for "this," instead of "this", (comma outside the double quote)

  Asked by rexpresso | 8 responses

• (NSFW) -- JIC. Why is so much of English language profanity four letters long?

  Asked by ETpro | 13 responses

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