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  • Fast and Loose

    When a language isn’t native to you, you often infuse it with your own private nuances and associations.

  • How Not To (and Just Possibly How To) Study Japanese

    Coming at a language as an outsider isn’t always a disadvantage. What first feels like an insurmountable barrier can become a vantage point.

  • Consistency is Key

    The hardest part of learning a language like Japanese isn’t what you’d expect.

  • Canon Good

    Swedes like to say that something is “kanonbra”, or about a formidable person that they are simply “kanon”.

  • Quarks, Gluons & Jabberwocks : On Aptonyms and Nonce Words

    It’s a very human tendency to conflate representations with reality. We are, after all, symbol-processing machines.

  • Language an *Interface* to Intelligence?

    Some feel “intelligence” should be seen as a clearly delineated entity, kept neatly separate from language.