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As of today, the world has 7164 languages, according to Ethnologue. A staggering third of these languages are endangered and only spoken by very few people, 1000 speakers at best. What’s even more serious is that more than 50% of the world’s population is covered by 23 major languages.

If you’re a language nerd,  you probably find great joy in word etymology. That’s because it’s fun! It’s always a joy to track the etymology of words. You can never know what you will find. Some words have pretty much alright etymologies. Other words, however, stun us with their completely unexpected etymologies. The Language Nerds did a

Scientific papers are often interesting, but they are rarely funny. And scientists are usually portrayed as dry nerds with no sense of humor. But this is not always the case, scientists can be very funny and their sense of humor is very witty. To show you how funny scientists can be, here are some humor-filled

More often than not, we feel the urge to make our language as blunt as possible so it falls just the way we want it on the ears of the person we are addressing. We want our message not just to be undersatood, but also carries all the emotions of the given context without the

This map shows the most recurring word on each country’s English wikipedia page. The results are very interesting to say the least. The map was posted on Reddit and was created by Reddit user Amiantedeluxe. Please not that the map excludes linking words such as ‘the’, ‘country’, ‘government’ and demonyms. (Full resultion picture below)

School might not be a good place to be if you’re still a student but ask anybody that’s getting older and they will tell you how nostalgic they feel about schoold and the good old memories when the only thing they worried about were homework and getting to class on time. One particultaly nostalgic thing

The number one thing you realize when you travel to different places is that people do things differently in different places. You also realize there is more than one way to live life. This means that sometimes your way of life or how you do things back in your homeland, might not always be the

You might have heard so many stereotypes about your native country, language, or culture that are so naive or oversimplifed that you wish to correct to people. The fact that Italians eat a lot of pasta, that Germans lack humor, or Russians drink a lot, are not totally flase, but fixed and oversimplifed. We have

Suppose you’re on a trip to some new country and you want to impress the locals with something funny about their country, wouldn’t a pun be a great way to do it? Isn’t funny and smart to tell a Swiss that among the things that make Switzerland special and unique is its flag, which is