Language & Linguistics

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Reading Time: 2 minutesBecause its origins are Greek I had a Spanish professor (who was Greek) years ago who explained that, just about any word with a “-ma” ending was a Greek word and should be treated masculine. That doesn’t mean the word in Greek was masculine, though Greek has three grammatical genders. And πρόβλημα, (provlema) is in

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Reading Time: 3 minutesAnyone who knows me knows that I have a bit of a thing for languages. I like studying them and I like speaking them. But I also like learning how they…work. A few years ago I read a book called, The Secret Life of Pronouns which got me interested in sentiment analysis. The central thesis of

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Reading Time: 11 minutesI’ve loved learning languages for most of my life. Because I hold degrees in two languages and demonstrate varying levels of proficiency in several others, I sometimes get asked how many languages I know, or when, or how, I started learning them. Learning languages is such a passion that I’ve been known to stop anyone