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 […]
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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.
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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
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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
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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
Arabic is an old and beautifully scripted language. Its impact on western languages is profound and it carries a lot of significance. As much as you know about Arabic, there is always room to know more.
Speaking a second language pays dividends as it has strong cognitive and social benefits. So, whatever trouble you took to learn a language, trust me it’s worth it. We at The Language Nerds brought to you an infographic that was put together by Visually which sums up the benefits of being bilingual. I’m going to leave you with the infographic for now, have
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Please like our new page Facebook about Dogs Visit our new website about Dogs : https://udoggybag.com The following writing tips come to you from Niklas Göke, a renowned blogger and writer at the Huffington Post. Göke says that these tips took him 3 years of writing to collect. The Language Nerds brought these tips to your fingertips that
War is an annihilator, the winner seeps out everything, including people. But how did English survive the Norman Conquest? There are actually two very general and hugely complex questions involved here, not one:
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