The pathetic story behind the English word “thing”.
Ladies and gentlemen, meet the peculiar etymology of a very peculiar word: ‘thing’.
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Latin is Not Dead: Why Latin is Still Spoken by More Than Half a Billion People.
It is well-established that Latin ceased to exist centuries ago, or in other words, Latin died. But, is Latin really dead? What if I told you that Latin is still alive and kicking? Would you believe that? Well, you might not. So, please read on!
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Why The World Will Never Speak One Universal Language.
The question of why can’t the world speak a single language is echoed more often, either by people interested in languages or by people whose interest in languages does not go beyond using them to communicate. That’s why we have to seriously consider this question. So why can’t just everybody wake up someday and decide
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Would You Be Smarter If You Learned More Vocabulary?
At a basic level, the answer to this specific question is yes: as you are learning these specific words, you are presumably learning about the concepts associated with these words. These are (again, presumably) new concepts to you and so you are learning new ways to think about things. But we can also consider the opposite question:
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