<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></title><description><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link><image><url>http://direct.ecency.com/logo512.png</url><title>RSS Feed</title><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 03:37:54 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="http://direct.ecency.com/@stevethevagabond/rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Etymology and Cardi B. ]]></title><description><![CDATA[By Tiffany Marcum If you use Instagram, Vine, listen to pop radio, or have seen any of the Love and Hip Hop series, you may know who I am describing already. Cardi B., born as Belcalis Marelnis Almanzar,]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/language/@stevethevagabond/etymology-and-cardi-b</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/language/@stevethevagabond/etymology-and-cardi-b</guid><category><![CDATA[language]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[stevethevagabond]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2024 09:22:45 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ancient antagonists: how our ancestors cursed at each other. Part one — the Greeks]]></title><description><![CDATA[By Joana Atanasova We naturally perceive our ancestors as the “old and wise” ones. “Listen to your grandfather! He knows better!” is what your mom would say when you start arguing about the back garden]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/language/@stevethevagabond/ancient-antagonists-how-our-ancestors-cursed-at-each-other-part-one-the-greeks</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/language/@stevethevagabond/ancient-antagonists-how-our-ancestors-cursed-at-each-other-part-one-the-greeks</guid><category><![CDATA[language]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[stevethevagabond]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2024 11:37:03 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[What’s In an Accent?]]></title><description><![CDATA[By Stefano Nunes I would like to begin by stating the simple fact that there is no such thing as “not having an accent”. Every language has accents; if they are not regional, they are foreign, and none]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/language/@stevethevagabond/whats-in-an-accent</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/language/@stevethevagabond/whats-in-an-accent</guid><category><![CDATA[language]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[stevethevagabond]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2024 07:55:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dispatches from Linguists: Dinner with the In-Laws, Language Barriers]]></title><description><![CDATA[By Rachael Brown This month the Dispatch is from Rachael Brown, who narrates a humorous tale of learning German and how this can bring an extra level of stress to those tricky everyday occasions that are]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/language/@stevethevagabond/dispatches-from-linguists-dinner-with-the-in-laws-language-barriers</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/language/@stevethevagabond/dispatches-from-linguists-dinner-with-the-in-laws-language-barriers</guid><category><![CDATA[language]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[stevethevagabond]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 29 Feb 2024 08:59:18 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some Linguistic Customs Around the World]]></title><description><![CDATA[By Valentin Pradelou There are as many varieties of language as there are customs attached to these languages. It is easy to note, when learning a new language, that some representations of the world may]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/language/@stevethevagabond/some-linguistic-customs-around-the-world</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/language/@stevethevagabond/some-linguistic-customs-around-the-world</guid><category><![CDATA[language]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[stevethevagabond]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 28 Feb 2024 09:21:51 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seeing and Unseeing]]></title><description><![CDATA[By Gil Cohen Ever heard of the saying: “Once you see it, you can’t unsee it”? Let’s say you have a friend who has a habit of chewing very loudly, but you don’t hear it. Then, one day, another friend talks]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/language/@stevethevagabond/seeing-and-unseeing</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/language/@stevethevagabond/seeing-and-unseeing</guid><category><![CDATA[language]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[stevethevagabond]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 27 Feb 2024 09:39:03 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Best of the World's Untranslatable Words]]></title><description><![CDATA[By Catherine Muxworthy Every language has words in it that are unique to it, that don't translate exactly as a singular word or idea from one language into another. There are thousands of these words in]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/language/@stevethevagabond/the-best-of-the-worlds-untranslatable-words</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/language/@stevethevagabond/the-best-of-the-worlds-untranslatable-words</guid><category><![CDATA[language]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[stevethevagabond]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 26 Feb 2024 10:27:12 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Big DON’Ts of Language Learning: Don't Look for ONE method]]></title><description><![CDATA[By Alessio F. Bona The promise of “the best way” to do a certain thing is a very tempting one. Advertisements and click-baits are full of such promises: the best diet, the best work-out routine, the best]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/language/@stevethevagabond/the-big-donts-of-language-learning-dont-look-for-one-method</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/language/@stevethevagabond/the-big-donts-of-language-learning-dont-look-for-one-method</guid><category><![CDATA[language]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[stevethevagabond]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 23 Feb 2024 14:18:51 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA["Mum, I Missed the Plane!" and Other Translations of Film Titles]]></title><description><![CDATA[By Rebekah Bradshaw In many ways, Hollywood, and popular culture more generally, has become a kind of lingua franca for the younger generations across the globe. Whilst on exchange in France, I chatted]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/language/@stevethevagabond/mum-i-missed-the-plane-and-other-translations-of-film-titles</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/language/@stevethevagabond/mum-i-missed-the-plane-and-other-translations-of-film-titles</guid><category><![CDATA[language]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[stevethevagabond]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2024 10:29:24 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ancient antagonists: how our ancestors cursed at each other. Part two — the Romans.]]></title><description><![CDATA[THIS ARTICLE IS NOT SAFE FOR WORK By Joana Atanasova There is such a vast amount of ancient profanities that are worth the read, that I just simply couldn’t leave it be a one part thing. In my previous]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/language/@stevethevagabond/ancient-antagonists-how-our-ancestors-cursed-at-each-other-part-two-the-romans</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/language/@stevethevagabond/ancient-antagonists-how-our-ancestors-cursed-at-each-other-part-two-the-romans</guid><category><![CDATA[language]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[stevethevagabond]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 20 Feb 2024 10:12:36 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Monkey see, monkey do, monkey speak]]></title><description><![CDATA[How Yerkish helps us understand primates By Joana Atanasova Every now and then an article from a sketchy website would come up on my newsfeed, claiming that the first human-monkey hybrid was born or that]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/language/@stevethevagabond/monkey-see-monkey-do-monkey-speak</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/language/@stevethevagabond/monkey-see-monkey-do-monkey-speak</guid><category><![CDATA[language]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[stevethevagabond]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2024 09:43:45 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[How to read Japanese characters and why it is so hard and interesting at the same time]]></title><description><![CDATA[By Linguipixie Reading Chinese characters can be difficult already, since you need to memorize both the meaning and the pronunciation of a character, but Japanese characters (kanji) definitely take it]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/language/@stevethevagabond/how-to-read-japanese-characters-and-why-it-is-so-hard-and-interesting-at-the-same-time</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/language/@stevethevagabond/how-to-read-japanese-characters-and-why-it-is-so-hard-and-interesting-at-the-same-time</guid><category><![CDATA[language]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[stevethevagabond]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2024 09:44:39 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Assembly of Animals: The Origins of Collective Names]]></title><description><![CDATA[Written for our Silly Linguistics magazine By Catherine Muxworthy Collective names – such as a pride of lions, a swarm of bees or a pack of dogs – are used to describe a group of the same animal together.]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/language/@stevethevagabond/assembly-of-animals-the-origins-of-collective-names</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/language/@stevethevagabond/assembly-of-animals-the-origins-of-collective-names</guid><category><![CDATA[language]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[stevethevagabond]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 09 Jan 2022 20:16:42 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning languages through media]]></title><description><![CDATA[I taught myself German and it was a long arduous process. With Swedish I wanted to take it easy and do things a bit differently. So I just watched music videos of Disney songs I knew, watched Swedish vloggers]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/writing/@stevethevagabond/learning-languages-through-media</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/writing/@stevethevagabond/learning-languages-through-media</guid><category><![CDATA[writing]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[stevethevagabond]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2021 15:27:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/S5Eokt4BcQdk7EHeT1aYjzebg2hC7hkthT45e7ULADinaLDqXs9RtejVD2Bgewm9RucvFBt?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language - tree or machine?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Are languages like trees? Did they grow and evolve slowly over time? 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In literature this word is used to refer to some kind of supernatural entity, whether it is a ghost or even]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/language/@stevethevagabond/what-do-the-words-not-and-wight-have-in-common-qsuvlk</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/language/@stevethevagabond/what-do-the-words-not-and-wight-have-in-common-qsuvlk</guid><category><![CDATA[language]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[stevethevagabond]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 09 May 2021 20:00:57 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why do "busy" and "bury" have U's in them?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Languages are messy. They borrow words from each other, have irregular verbs and their spelling systems can sometimes do with a bit of work. Writing is a technology. It is something that we use to convert]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/language/@stevethevagabond/why-do-busy-and-bury-have-us-in-them</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/language/@stevethevagabond/why-do-busy-and-bury-have-us-in-them</guid><category><![CDATA[language]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[stevethevagabond]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2021 22:52:09 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The story of how the word "stone" came to be]]></title><description><![CDATA[A long time ago, in the Bronze Age, there were a group of people living in Scandanavia. These people would eventually become the Germanic people. The people living then didn't really have writing. They]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/language/@stevethevagabond/the-story-of-how-the-word-stone-came-to-be-qsafuc</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/language/@stevethevagabond/the-story-of-how-the-word-stone-came-to-be-qsafuc</guid><category><![CDATA[language]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[stevethevagabond]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2021 19:08:36 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the Japanese word for sushi?]]></title><description><![CDATA[This question, though at first absurd, can be a great jumping off point for a discussion about language. When does a word become a part of a language? And what is a language anyway? 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