nice!

Type of spider notable for its inventiveness, visual acuity and great capacity for learning

didn't realize this had a name

craziest parasitic wasp I have read about yet

THEY DON'T LIKE TO BE JOSTLED

exceptionally useful online dictionary, with stroke order, unicode codepoints and translation

really stupid sapir/whorf-type article about a language in the andes where people gesture behind them to indicate the future. Considering how memory works, this is actually quite logical - you can only see the past

the mystery of why this word is consistently translated as 'fuck' in chinglish

continuing story of a language that arose spontaneously among deaf nicaraguan kids

extinct manchurian ethnic group that gave China its russian (kitaj) and archaic English (cathay) name

weird colission of word wankery with graph theory. "The 45-letter word PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOKONIOSIS has been omitted from the eodermdrome analysis"

amazing interactive website for playing around with chinese characters

neat sketch of the language

notes on argentine spanish from a non-native, non-linguist speaker

notes on a walk through the dictionary, lots of obscure words

russian corpus of over 50 million words

handy online Polish dictionary of foreign borrowings

sadly only the first two letters are online

"To ride shotgun is 1963, from Old West stagecoach custom in the movies."

Abstract to an interesting sounding linguistics paper by Reshetnikov that I cannot find online