# 17 Things Everyone Should Know About Language But Doesn’t Even Know to Ask

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The piece presents seventeen findings from linguistics that teachers, journalists, policy experts, and grammar commentators should understand about language.

Blog post · Medium · 11 March 2018

## Where it lives

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## About this item

- Type: Blog post
- Published: 11 March 2018
- Published in: Medium
- Language: English

Topics: language, linguistics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, language-meaning.

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