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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.
Language: linguistics, etymology, name origins, pronunciation, English history, language learning, translation, writing systems, dialects, constructed languages, onomastics.
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0 mo on HNIsmo: Ass Is The Most Complicated Word In The English Language | CONAN on TBS
Team Coco
0 HN recommender · 2019–2024
0 mo on HNThe Wire: to evacuate
2birdsswimming
0 HN recommender · 2013–2019
0 mo on HNGeorge Carlin Shell Shock
dubeye08
0 HN recommender · 2020–2024
0 mo on HNISMO | I Didn't Know Sh*t 💩💩💩
ISMO
0 HN recommender · 2019–2026
0 mo on HNMy Fair Lady "Why Can't the English Learn to Speak"
Eivind Solfjell
0 HN recommender · 2013–2016
0 mo on HNBut we're speaking Japanese! 日本語喋ってるんだけど
helpmefindparents
0 HN recommender · 2015–2024
0 mo on HNDear America... | David Mitchell's SoapBox
David Mitchell's Soapbox
0 HN recommender · 2010–2025
0 mo on HNWhy don't subtitles match dubbing?
Tom Scott
0 HN recommender · 2024–2025
0 mo on HNDanish language
snurre
0 HN recommender · 2016–2026
0 mo on HNCan Japanese Actually Write Japanese Kanji?
That Japanese Man Yuta
0 HN recommender · 2016–2024
0 mo on HNHow to Pronounce Synecdoche
PronunciationManual
0 HN recommender · 2021–2026
0 mo on HNThe Disappearing American Dialect of North Carolina
Great Big Story
0 HN recommender · 2017–2025