Attempto controlled English

A controlled/minimal grammar for pseudo-English that can be used for expressing specifications and so forth. Neat project, and parsable without leaving the Slow Zone.

Doge grammar

Cool - a linguist writes about Doge. Also, Dogescript. So grammar. Much script. Wow.

Prairie dog language

So ... turns out prairie dogs might be rather loquacious.

Iterated feedback through YouTube transcripts

YouTube puts up transcripts of English videos.  Here's a guy who cleverly read the transcript, read that transcript, and so on, then did a little measurement of the results.

Interesting stuff.

Ithkuil

Interesting constructed language and an unbelievably Gibsonesque story about it.  (Anything featuring the countries formerly known as the Soviet Union ends up feeling Gibsonesque to me, I guess.)

Language: Elephant

I don't believe it was ever actually implemented, but John McCarthy proposed a language he called Elephant based on speech acts, largely commitments, questions, and the like.

It's an intriguing concept, but he loses me pretty quickly on the implementation details. But the notion bears further thought.

Starbucks coffee language

A very interesting article about the language of coffee at Starbucks and how it enhances customer experience and loyalty. And here's the blog [post] that led me to it - probably that blog has more interesting things in store.