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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.

Why HN keeps sending people here — on George Lakoff: Moral Politics: “Changed how I listen - to anyone - forever.” — an HN commenter, 2021.

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Ismo: Ass Is The Most Complicated Word In The English Language | CONAN on TBS

Team Coco
0 HN recommender · 2019–2024
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The Wire: to evacuate

2birdsswimming
0 HN recommender · 2013–2019
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George Carlin Shell Shock

dubeye08
0 HN recommender · 2020–2024
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ISMO | I Didn't Know Sh*t 💩💩💩

ISMO
0 HN recommender · 2019–2026
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My Fair Lady "Why Can't the English Learn to Speak"

Eivind Solfjell
0 HN recommender · 2013–2016
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But we're speaking Japanese! 日本語喋ってるんだけど

helpmefindparents
0 HN recommender · 2015–2024
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Dear America... | David Mitchell's SoapBox

David Mitchell's Soapbox
0 HN recommender · 2010–2025
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Why don't subtitles match dubbing?

Tom Scott
0 HN recommender · 2024–2025
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Danish language

snurre
0 HN recommender · 2016–2026
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Can Japanese Actually Write Japanese Kanji?

That Japanese Man Yuta
0 HN recommender · 2016–2024
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How to Pronounce Synecdoche

PronunciationManual
0 HN recommender · 2021–2026
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The Disappearing American Dialect of North Carolina

Great Big Story
0 HN recommender · 2017–2025