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Why I Blog About Linguistics

And Why Everyone Should Take an Intro to Linguistics Class

14 min readAug 19, 2023

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How many languages do you speak?

A Very Brief Introduction to Linguistics

11 min readSep 15, 2021

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Is Present-Day English “Delulu”?

Dissecting a Cute New Coinage in English

10 min readSep 15, 2023

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The “Unaliving” of English

A Brief Exploration of Some English Word-Building Processes

8 min readSep 8, 2023

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Language, Dialect, and the Time-Space Continuum

The Difference Between Language and Dialect

10 min readSep 1, 2023

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The Importance of Non-Literal Meaning in Language

A Very Brief Introduction to Linguistic Pragmatics

10 min readAug 24, 2023

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To Boldly Split the Infinitive, As Pretty Much Everyone Else Has Before

On A Fake Rule of English and How it Wastes Our Precious Time

7 min readAug 12, 2023

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Gen Z and the Future of English

How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love Language Change

8 min readAug 4, 2023

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The Never Ending Search for the Longest Word

Why the Quest is Doomed to Failure

7 min readJul 28, 2023

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The Grammar of Signed Languages

Addressing Some Common Myths About Signed Languages

10 min readJul 26, 2023

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Matthew Veras Barros

Matthew Veras Barros

Linguistics Professor at Washington University in St. Louis | Linguistics PhD | Natural language researcher | He/Him | Support me at: https://ko-fi.com/drbarros

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