Being able to speak multiple languages is priceless. Language is key to understanding another culture, which is like opening up and discovering a whole new world. It enables you to converse with a whole other group of people, understands a whole other set of ideas, and perceive everything in life from more than one angle. […]
It fascinates me how much we know about our languages and that we don’t know we know. Nobody taught us anything as babies and yet we could navigate, quite easily and effortlessly, our way inside the linguistic maze we were thrown into. The amount of rules you should know to speak a certain language is
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Every once in a while, a meme trend sweeps the internet and suddenly everyone is fanatically sharing it to the point of getting fed up with seeing it in every two or three scrolls. The new trend lately has been a dad joke template involving Captain America. It might not be the meme we need,
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We give names to things around us almost all the time in a way that is totally random. The word cat, for instance, has no clue in itself that can help us guess what it refers to. But what if we took the task of naming things in such a way that you could guess almost
Everyone on this planet laughs pretty much the same way. No human will fail to recognize a laugh no matter from what corner of the world it comes from. But there is an aspect to laughing that is incredibly diverse across languages and cultures. While the acoustics of laughing are universally fixed, there is a
Let me let you on a little secrete. No two words mean exactly the same thing. You might, at first glance, think that the adjectives “hard” and “difficult” are perfect synonyms, but they’re not. I know you don’t believe this but a little example will help. Can we swap these adjectives in an example like
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Something I wish the internet never runs out of is puns. They are a fine product of what I like to call humanity’s second-best organ; the brain. Most people don’t stop for a second to think about the genius that goes into coming up with creative puns such as the ones below. But as a
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A palindrome is a word or phrase that reads the same backward as forward. Words in themselves are fun let alone if they can read from both ends. The fact that these words are palindromes is coincidental, but a little bit of creativity went into forming the latter part of the palindrome phrases you’ll find
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People have been so creative with puns lately. They would make a pun about pretty much everything. Aside from the regular puns we know, these celebrity name puns take the fun to a whole different level. And since they relate to what we do as words aficionados, we hunt them down and we share them
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Sometimes similarities may lead us to think that certain things are identical and therefore we tend to give them the same names. When we look closely, however, we find they are actually a little different but most of the time we still give them the same names. While some languages try to correct this over
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