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Language & linguistics Videos Recommended on Hacker News (84)

Language & linguistics is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 84 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2008 and 2026 — 157 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.

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Language & linguistics Videos Recommended on Hacker News (84)

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George Lakoff: Moral Politics

Stephen Fry Kinetic Typography - Language

What Languages Sound Like To Foreigners

Adriano Celentano - Prisencolinensinainciusol

Irving Finkel | The Ark Before Noah: A Great Adventure

Cracking Ancient Codes: Cuneiform Writing - with Irving Finkel

How to learn any language in six months | Chris Lonsdale | TEDxLingnanUniversity

The Unanswered Question 1973 1 Musical Phonology Bernstein Norton

RSA ANIMATE: Language as a Window into Human Nature

Jorge Luis Borges: This Craft of Verse Lectures - thepostarchive

The US Has More Tribes Than the World Has Countries

George Carlin - Euphemisms

A London Accent from the 14th to the 21st Centuries

Thoth's Pill - an Animated History of Writing

The Zipf Mystery

The surprising pattern behind color names around the world

Anagrams, but where you can break apart letters: "Anagraphs"

Stephen Fry on the Joys of Swearing

Why are British place names so hard to pronounce?

Music as a Language: Victor Wooten at TEDxGabriolaIsland

Rapping, deconstructed: The best rhymers of all time

23. Language

I made a talking banana

Conlang Critic Episode Twelve: Toki Pona

The Concept of Language (Noam Chomsky)

How to write cuneiform with Irving Finkel and @preservethings I Curator's Corner S4 Ep9

Shakespeare: Original pronunciation (The Open University)

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Edward Gibson: Human Language, Psycholinguistics, Syntax, Grammar & LLMs | Lex Fridman Podcast #426

Accent Expert Gives a Tour of U.S. Accents - (Part 2) | WIRED

Vocal Fry: what it is, who does it, and why people hate it!

Hacker Interviews: Larry Wall

Why “No Problem” Can Seem Rude: Phatic Expressions

Rhyme: Why Eminem is one of the most impressive lyricists ever

Try this bizarre audio illusion! 👁️👂😮 - BBC

Accent Expert Gives a Tour of U.S. Accents - (Part One) | WIRED