All I want is to be understood.

In this fantastic talk, Guy Steele sets himself a simple challenge: if he needs to use a word of two or more syllables, he must first define it. Ostensibly a talk about computer languages, but the ideas can be applied to the evolution of any language.

A Virginia Woolf essay on words, and apparently the only surviving recording of her voice.

Video: Stephen Pinker on emotion the language of swearing.

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Noam Chomsky contemplates the basic, yet still unanswerable, questions of linguistics.