Fun Facts From Different Languages You Didn’t Know.
The following facts were gathered from the input that was provided by our followers at The Language Nerds. Enjoy!
Fun Facts From Different Languages You Didn’t Know. Read More »
The following facts were gathered from the input that was provided by our followers at The Language Nerds. Enjoy!
Fun Facts From Different Languages You Didn’t Know. Read More »
Have you ever wondered why we say tick-tock, King-Kong, and flip-flop? And why do kong-king and tock-tick sound so awkward to our ears? Why is it fiddle-faddle and pitter-patter rather than faddle-fiddle and patter-pitter? Why?…well ’cause! It turns out that this is one of the unwritten rules that English native speakers know, but don’t know they know. I will unravel this amazing rule here for you. Please bear with
Please like our new page Facebook about Dogs Visit our new website about Dogs : https://udoggybag.com Americans and their British neighbors may share a language, but that doesn’t mean they speak exactly the same version of it. There are many unsubtle differences between British and American English that make each one unique, from small spelling changes
Major differences between American and British English. Read More »
The Alphabet of the English language and most of the European languages was not thought of at the spur of the moment. Like the case with most language phenomenon, it naturally evolved through centuries of accumulating changes that gave us the Alphabet as we know it today.
The Evolution of The Alphabet: From 1750 BC to Today. Read More »
Words are fun. They are what gets us, language nerds, turned on. When you speak more than one language, you realize that words mean different things in different languages. Sometimes an innocent word in a language can sound really bad in another, and that’s where the real fun is. Below are some words that are
Innocent Words That Sound Completely Inappropriate In Other Languages. Read More »
Great books are never bound by the languages they are written in. They travel through languages, spaces, and cultures, and that’s what makes a great book.
50 Of The World’s Most Translated Books, Excluding The Bible. Read More »
An oxymoron is a figure of speech in which two or more words side by side contradict each other. Their use in speech often leads to humor, irony, and sarcasm. We’ve asked our followers at The Language Nerds to share their favorite oxymorons and the result has been nothing short of hilarious. We’ve compiled them here for
No language has all of the words, and English is no exception. While you can express the complex feeling of “insecurity, fear, concern, and envy over relative lack of possessions, status or something of great personal value, particularly in reference to a comparator, a rival, or a competitor.” with one word (i.e. jealousy), some other
20 Fascinating Words From Other Languages with no English Equivalent. Read More »
Please like our new page Facebook about Dogs Visit our new website about Dogs : https://udoggybag.com We have both good and very good news for you. The very good news is that all languages are learnable. The good news is that they are each learnable at different rates and speed. In this blog post, we brought
What are the hardest and easiest languages to learn? Read More »
A wug is an imaginary cartoon creature created and first used by psycholinguist Jean Berko Gleason to test people’s ability to use the English plural morpheme*. The test usually involves two cartoon panels—one depicting one wug with the caption “This is a wug,” and the other depicting two wugs with the caption “Now there is another one. There are two of them. There are