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Every once in a while we highlight some interesting ways in which different languages say something that other cultures share. This time around, we want t o highlight something that’s around, aka, Christmas. Precisely, how different languages say “Merry Christmas”. We figured it would be best to show you these differences on a map. We […]

Do you know what is funnier than the jokes themselves? People missing the joke and trying to correct their authors. Priceless! Our ability to tell jokes to entertain and amuse is probably one of the great wonders of our intelligence. One trait that people find really agreeable in one’s character is their sense of humor,

Words have clear boundaries, when written we know when a word ends and and when the other starts by placing little spaces between words. But when they mush together, especially in spoken writing, we rely entirely on our intuition and context to figure out the boundaries between words. I scream and Ice cream will sound

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.

Some names sound funny due to their unique combinations of sounds and syllables. Often, names that include unusual or unexpected phonetic elements can elicit laughter or amusement. Additionally, names that rhyme with common words or have humorous associations can also contribute to their comedic effect. Furthermore, names that are overly long or difficult to pronounce

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