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Language Jones
Personal blog · languagejones.com/blog-1scienceculture
Language Jones is a personal blog at languagejones.com about science and culture. Since 2014, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “The Problem with Twitter Maps”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-22, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Language Jones posts cover word origins and slang spellings. A commenter cites a post on the spellings bruh, breh and brah, plus Wikipedia on 'irie', to correct a phrase in a thread about marijuana and odd radixes.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- The Problem with Twitter Maps2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-12-25
What Hacker News says?
I believe it's supposed to be "Irie, brah", where irie is a Jamaican word closely associated with the Rastafarian movement that basically means "cool", and "brah" is a permutation of "bro". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irie http://www.languagejones.com/blog-1/2015/9/11/bruh-breh-brah...
Comment linking /blog-1/2015/9/11/bruh-breh-brah-bro
on “Today is special day if you like marijuana and odd radixes”Submitted The Problem with Twitter Maps as a story · 50 points
HN discussionSubmitted Linguist’s analysis of body cam footage of George Floyd in Derek Chauvin trial as a story · 47 points
HN discussionSubmitted Language Jones and the Temple of... Burritos? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tweets, like Roman graffiti, can tell us about pronunciation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Problem with Twitter Maps as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Obvs is Phonological, and it's Totes Legit as a story · 1 points
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