I have to say that I’m sometimes amazed how people can have wrong impression on what linguists actually do. There was a funny internet meme on how people see linguists and how that relates to reality. Working as a linguist for years, I have come across many odd questions regarding linguist job and language related problems. [More]

Have you ever wondered how many books are being published yearly? And how is that number changing from country to country? UNESCO had a survey on published books in world and collected data for each country separately. Below you will find the chart I made according to their recently published result... [More]

People need language to fully understand numbers. But we also need numbers or rather statistics to truly understand languages of the world, their evolution and disappearance. Here are some amazing language facts that will make you think about numbers. [More]

Today I would like to introduce to my readers one of the best Serbian female poets. Her name is Desanka Maksimovic and she was born on May 16, 1898. Beside her fruitful work as a writer she also worked most of her life as a Serbian language teacher and some of her students later became very popular ... [More]

Grammar is important because the good language knowledge is sine qua none when we want to talk about language. It’s the grammar who gave us names of word types and word groups and who enables us to form sentences not only in English but in any language. [More]

  Today I am pleased to introduce the first guest post on Linguist Blog by Gabryyl Pierce. I met her thanks to Blogathon 2012 and she graciously agreed to be my swap partner for the guest post exchange day. On her journey for the 5th annual WordCount Blogathon she decided to do a theme of My F... [More]

Today I’ll share with you my favorite quotations about language. I assume that you already noticed Whorf’s quote about language at home page of my blog. From my notebook I chose some less known, but deep and inspirational thoughts on language. [More]

Yesterday my colleague told me an interesting anecdote about mistranslated saying that I would love to share with you. [More]

Bastardization in language is a well-known issue these days. And even worse, it has become popular among the students. They keep spelling words wrong in their text messages, on social networks and in the end in their essays and writings. What seems problematic here is that they’re not bothered with ... [More]

Common sense advisory conducted a survey on behalf of Translators without borders on African languages and the possibility to improve economic development and health standard through translation. The results showed that translation could have significant role in informing the world about inequalities in Africa and also help improving political stability and social wellbeing of African nations. [More]