What are the reasons for and against constitutionally requiring a specific national language? [more inside]
posted on Aug 28, 2008 - 74 answers

I am looking for writings on the infinity of definition. [more inside]
posted on Mar 13, 2008 - 32 answers

How is the meaning of art and artefacts being altered by the methods we use to: Experience, Define and Preserve them... In other words, in what ways have technologies been used to experience, re-define and/or preserve art and artifacts? [more inside]
posted on Feb 5, 2008 - 12 answers

I am searching for examples of The Infinite, or the immeasurably large, in our mythologies and archetypes. I am also interested in the categories of Truth which came out of the emergence of Western, ontological thought. Does the trust in a rationally conceivable reality deny us the infinity of the mythological realm? By rooting ourselves in the present, and denying atemporal mythologies, do we also deny the infinite origins from where we came? [more inside]
posted on Nov 28, 2007 - 22 answers

I want to learn more about the origins of the English language and about the roots of English words. [more inside]
posted on Jan 1, 2007 - 25 answers

Linguists: What's the history of 'standard forms' of languages? [more inside]
posted on May 14, 2006 - 17 answers

Why do the letters of the alphabet occur in the particular order that they do? [more inside]
posted on Apr 2, 2006 - 37 answers

What is the History of English Language Capitalization? [more inside]
posted on Dec 27, 2005 - 34 answers

What is the origin of the term "Hip Hop"?
posted on Dec 20, 2005 - 12 answers

I'm looking for books on the history of the Romance Languages. [more inside]
posted on Nov 22, 2005 - 8 answers

In the spring there was a lot of discussion about the Oxyrhynchus papyri, but since then the news has totally died down. Has anything new been deciphered yet? [more inside]
posted on Nov 4, 2005 - 2 answers

The abbreviation R.I.P. stands for the Latin "Reqiescat in Pace." I'm trying to get past the insensitivity of not bothering to spell out the epitaph on someone's tombstone and instead concentrate on understanding why and how this convention originated. [more inside]
posted on Feb 23, 2005 - 25 answers

Where did the term "asshat" originate, and what's it's definition?
posted on Jan 8, 2004 - 10 answers