Tag Archives: Language

The Amazon Tribe That Broke Universal Grammar #history #linguistics #didyouknow #airlearn #viral

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The Listening Post

3 Jun 2026 ‘The Listening Post’ written by lemn Sissay, performed by Terence Rae at The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo. […]

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The Kiki-Bouba effect is deeper than you think

21 Jun 2026 You already know all about Kiki and Bouba, but the truth goes way deeper than you think. It turns out the Kiki-Bouba effect isn’t really about language at all, but it can tell us a lot about … Continue reading

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Can You Describe This Smell? | Otherwords

Can You Describe This Smell? | Otherwords 23 Jun 2026 Humans can differentiate as many as a TRILLION different odors, and yet of all the senses, we have the fewest number of words for SMELLS… why is that? Otherwords is … Continue reading

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European languages from India? #linguistics #language #history #india

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What has happened to /iː/ in British pronunciation?

31 May 2026 #accents #phonetics #vowelsound /iː/ (widely known in phonetics as the FLEECE vowel) is generally classified as a long, close/front, monophthong in Standard British English, and this is how it appears in dictionaries. But how far is this … Continue reading

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How Language Shapes The Way You Think|语言如何悄悄塑造我们的思维方式

  22 May 2026 #languagelearning #linguistics #english Have you ever thought about how language shapes the way you think? I’ve been thinking about it a lot recently and wanted to share my thoughts! It’s particularly interesting between languages that are … Continue reading

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Nordic Ice Cream #nordic #language #norway #denmark #iceland #sweden

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The Quality Without a Name

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Hannah Arendt: How did this come to be? (1967)

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