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I'm a programmer by day and an amateur linguist by night.

I organize the Arlington Linguistics Book Club, where we read a wide variety of books that make the science of linguistic accessible to a popular audience.

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8	How could one generate gibberish that mimics a specific language?
8	Language acquisition without interactive contact with fluent speakers
7	Do signed languages undergo the same processes of change that the spoken ones do?
5	What parts of speech / word classes do languages most frequently lack?
4	What language takes the longest to text?

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+20	What language takes the longest to text?
+10	How could one generate gibberish that mimics a specific language?
+5	Outside of Modern Hebrew, do any previously dead languages have native speakers again?
+10	Is anyone studying change in constructed language?

7 Questions

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21	How do I format an interlinear gloss for HTML?
19	What method do linguists use to rate language competence?
9	How exactly does an obviate proximate system work?
7	What are the alternate morphological typologies to isolating, agglutinative, fusional, polysyntehtic, etc.?
7	What is an example of a syntactic structure that can't be represented by a BNF grammar?

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12 language-change × 3	6 constructed-language × 2
8 language-acquisition × 2	5 sociolinguistics × 2
8 psycholinguistics	5 parts-of-speech
8 phonology	5 word-classes
7 sign-languages	4 historical-linguistics