A database of captured fMRI videos for the articulation of various sounds in the IPA.

An IPA chart with example pronunciations.

The good'ol Google ngram explorer for tracking term uses across recent centuries.

A two hour long ride full of fun quirks in human languages.

I never fully understood the concept of voicing:

• if 'b' and 'p' are really the same except for the voiceness, how can we still tell the difference in whisper?
• how can we produce 'b' unvoiced as well as unvoiced vowels, etc.
• i don't feel my lips are moving the same way when producing 'b' and 'p'

The answer: they are not exactly the same. The textbook is lying to you. See the post for more.

In short, "ne" is the negation word, but "pas" originally means "step" (or "a small step"). "Je ne mange pas." originally mean "I didn't eat a little". The form then evolve into standard way of expression negation.

This discussion leads me to this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jespersen%27s_Cycle.

Jespersen's Cycle describe the historical development of the expression of negation: from a simple pre-verbal marker of negation, through a discontinuous marker (elements both before and after the verb) and in some cases through subsequent loss of the original pre-verbal marker.

It's interesting to note that English underwent the similar transition (e.g. "I ate not today") but now it ended up back to the first stage.

A figure of speech that uses negation to convey understatement. For example, one may say "It's not a masterpiece." instead of "It's mediocre."

It's similar to OneLook reverse lookup dictionary (https://www.onelook.com/thesaurus/). Supports query in both Chinese and English.

The article described some fun facts and fun histories about emoji and why it is so prevalent.

The author took on an experiment not to use emoji for two weeks, and learned what roles emoji plays in daily communication and the text alternatives.

Two seemingly unrelated words may have shared origin.

See how two (or more) terms correlates in human corpus through history.

An interesting language in which morphemes are composable 2d strokes, which can be put together into sentences that look like a picture.

A lot of fun linguistic plays. Including anagram, palindrome, mnemonics and many more.

Search through corpus for more proper usages.

Supports Lojban and other weird languages.

lots of english grammar terms explained. nice website for reference.

<blockquote>A guide to writing systems and languages, with useful phrases, tips on learning languages, multilingual texts, and much more.</blockquote>

input sentence and get word-by-word translation and nested structure as boxes

<blockquote>A snowclone is a cliché and phrasal template that can be used and recognized in multiple variants.</blockquote>