Curated by thrice · 7 books
Reading path
Why we talk the way we do — the science of language, from babies to the internet, from Pinker to the group chat.
Bill Bryson
English, explained with jokes. The friendliest start.
Steven Pinker, Garikoitz Knörr de Santiago
The big argument: language is a human instinct, not an invention.
Guy Deutscher
Does your language shape how you see the world? The real evidence.
Guy Deutscher
How languages grow their grammar — evolution in action.
Gaston Dorren
Twenty world languages, twenty delightful tours.
John H. McWhorter
Language change is normal, and here is the proof.
Gretchen McCulloch
How the internet reinvented writing — linguistics for the group-chat age.
