I decided to select the Reproductive System as a pilot project, not merely for its prurient interest, but also because this semantic field tends to b… - James Alan Matisoff

There can be no more solemn duty for the comparative linguist than to reconstruct his language family's word for the Supreme Being.

Bilingual humor may be viewed as a relatively benign response to the frustrations inherent in living in such a linguistically and racially heterogeneous region as the hills and valleys of backwoods Southeast Asia.

Rhinoglottophilia–an affinity between the feature of nasality and the articulatory involvement of the glottis–is more prevalent than is generally realized. Although it sounds like a disease, or even a perversion, rhinoglottophilia is actually quite a benign and natural condition. It is of interest chiefly because it is not obvious why there should be such an affinity at all.