You asked. We answer. A very special mailbag episode.

Are dying languages worth saving?

Looks like Shakespeare’s got some company.

What’s in a name? A whole bunch, actually.

There’s more to language than just syntax, you know.

How can you spot a fishy story about a word or phrase?

Are you constantly getting interrupted… or manterrupted?

The biggest idea in linguistics is under fire.

What does your brain know that you don’t know that it knows?

Different languages, same words, same sounds. What does it mean?

How do we fix language teaching in Australia?

How do we know what we know? And how do you get a dog to lie still in a fMRI machine?

Is French going to fizzle, or become the next big language?

When aliens arrive, what will their language be like?

It’s not as simple as one, two, three.