Now that we have our very own Top 100 Blog List there are bound to be questions and opinions streaming in from all corners of the Internet. This article is a preemptive post to answer what we feel are the two biggest questions. Why we made the list, and how we made the list. Why [...]

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Here follows the complete list of our 250 top language, education and learning blogs. We here at Lexiophiles are only human however, and this list has been compiled by us. To read more about how and why we made this list and discuss the shoulda-woulda-coulda, we wrote all about it here. So, since we are [...]

…and don’t cross the road if you can’t get out of the kitchen.

Ever heard the expression, “…then you’ve got another thing coming”? Did that sentence make sense to you? If it did, then wins to you! I can’t seem to understand the logic behind it. I have asked people who use it for an explanation of what it means. They often come up with the analogy that [...]

Turkish is an agglutinating language in which words are mostly formed by joining morphemes together. Each of the morphemes has one meaning or function and is added to a noun or verb to denote case, number, gender, person, tense, etc. It is possible to produce hundreds of different forms for a given root word. There [...]

Türkçe sondan eklemeli dillerden biridir. Söz konusu dillerin başlıca özelliği, kelimelere birtakım ekler eklenerek yeni kelimeler üretilebilmesidir. Her ekin bir anlamı veya işlevi bulunur. Bu ekler bir ismin veya fiilin sonuna eklenir ve ismin halleri, sayi, kisi, zaman gibi işlevleri yerine getirirler. Böylece bir kelimeye farkli ekler eklenerek pek çok yeni anlam yüklenebilir. Türkçe’de bilinen [...]

There is a language community on the interwebs, which, in large parts due to its own actions, remains sheltered from the rest of us. This segregated community can be viewed as any other outcast (voluntary or not) group. I’m referring to that very small percentage of internet users who speak, or well type I guess, [...]

You got it. The Swedish language does not differentiate between W and V, or at least most of the time. Often as not V and W are listed together in the phonebook, for those of you who still remember those, and if you are listed as Vilhemlsson at the dentist you may well be Wilhelmsson [...]

China has launched a program to ban unintelligible English in the run-up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Chinglish has become a running joke among many foreigners in China, and many websites have been set up listing humorous examples of the mistranslation. A road sign in China warns people to be careful and not to fall [...]