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What Ancient Egyptian Sounded Like (and How We Know)
For most of us, ancient Egyptian is a highly visual language represented by the familiar hieroglyphs left behind on monuments, papyrus documents, and even sarcophagi. But of course it was a spoken language as well.[…] Source: What Ancient Egyptian Sounded … Continue reading
Your Daily Equation #22: 8 – 2 ÷ 2 x 3 + 4 = ?
Episode 22 #YourDailyEquation: Simple arithmetic problems go viral with people proposing all sorts of different answers. It speaks to an important concept–the order of various operations matters–but, as Brian Greene discusses, is often taught in a less-than-inspirational way in the … Continue reading
Why Is English Spelling So Damn Weird?!
In this video I look at the historical factors that have made English spelling so varied, inconsistent, and unpredictable! […]
How Bilingual Brains Perceive Time Differently
A new study has found that what language you speak might alter your perception of time.
Group theory and why I love 808,017,424,794,512,875,886,459,904,961,710,757,005,754,368,000,000,000
Errors: *Typo on the “hard problem” at 14:11, it should be a/(b+c) + b/(a+c) + c/(a+b) = 4 *Typo-turned-speako: The classification of quasithin groups is 1221 pages long, not 12,000. The full collection of papers proving the CFSG theorem do … Continue reading
Fun Illustrations Visualize of the “Same” Words w/ Different Meanings | My Modern Met
Every heard that song “Bye, Buy, By”? Language lovers will be thrilled to know that illustrator Bruce Worden is back to regularly updating his popular website Homophones, Weakly. Since 2011, Worden has been illustrating homophones, which are two or more … Continue reading
Evolution of the Alphabet | Earliest Forms to Modern Latin Script
Buy the chart: https://usefulcharts.com/products/evo… Types of Writing Systems video: CREDITS: Chart/Narration: Matt Baker https://usefulcharts.com/ Animation: Syawish Rehman https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCf0O… Audio Editing: Jack Rackam https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaQz… Intro music: “Lord of the Land” by Kevin MacLeod and licensed under Creative Commons Attribution license 4.0. … Continue reading
The Zipf Mystery
The of and to. A in is I. That it, for you, was with on. As have … but be they. RELATED LINKS AND SOURCES BELOW! Tweets by tweetsauce http://www.instagram.com/electricpants WordCount.org http://www.wordcount.org/ How many days have you been alive? http://www.beatcanvas.com/daysalive.asp … Continue reading
Lingthusiasm Episode 45: Tracing languages back before recorded history
Language is much older than writing. But audio and visual cues from sounds and signs don’t leave physical traces the way writing does. So when linguists want to figure out how people talked before history started being recorded, we need … Continue reading
Learn words in the Bundjalung language from northern NSW
More at http://ab.co/2g0qxtx How do you say ‘thank you’ in Bundjalung? In the languages of eastern Australia it’s rare to find words that are like salutations or small talk – because Aboriginal people had no use for them. Evelyn Araluen … Continue reading
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