the ums, ers, ahs

Alan Siegrist, a professional Japanese-English translator, member of both Japan Association of Translators (JAT) and American Translators Association (ATA), has finally solved the mystery of gibberish “Asian Font”.

The main syntactic problem is to determine whether the fuck is being used as an pleonastic (semantically empty) direct object of shut or as a pre-head modifier of the preposition phrase (PP) headed by up.

unsolved and semi-solved mysteries of ancient writing

The corpus contains more than 360 million words of text, including 20 million words each year from 1990-2007, and it is equally divided among spoken, fiction, popular magazines, newspapers, and academic texts.

"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" is a grammatically correct sentence used as an example of how homonyms and homophones can be used to create complicated constructs."

cystitis dismount!

what sounds animals are supposed to make in what languages

The Volapük language

bizarre perfect language based on musical notation

small markov chain program

Machine translated japanese horoscopes

list of insane Mongolian clan names

The change in vowel articulation from the 12th to the 18th centuries in English.

finds words that occur once in a text

I can eat glass, and it does not harm me.