The 9 Best Parts of a Legal Brief on Behalf of Klingon Speakers
The plaintiffs in this case should have known better than to mess with the Klingons.
The plaintiffs in this case should have known better than to mess with the Klingons.
Soon you'll be to ready to vasterat with Khaleesi, Khal Moro, and the rest of the horselord gang.
People, even as babies, are good at pulling out grammatical structure from patterned data.
A Smoot—which equals 5 feet, 7 inches—isn't the only really precise unit of measurement out there.
Scots is close to Standard English in the way Norwegian is close to Danish, which is to say, they are pretty much mutually intelligible. It’s possible to read the Scots Wikipedia and understand nearly everything, but there’s just enough unfamiliar vocabul
The Hogwarts houses in Harry Potter stay pretty much the same in most of translations of the books—but some languages go a different way.
The "party-cut" vs. "pie cut"; "apizza"; and 10 more.
Did you know it used to be cloud seven instead of cloud nine? Here are six other everyday phrases that used to be very different.
Turns out this expression of unbridled hedonism isn't so modern after all.
We experience the world through our senses, so it makes sense that our language should reflect those senses. This group of words traces back to the basic elements of taste: sour, bitter, sweet, and salty.
Hanging on to your high school or college Spanish—or French, or German, etc—is a challenge once you're no longer enrolled in classes.
Bilingual jokes and puns that work in two languages, or contain multiple languages as a part of the joke, are the crown jewels of any (jo)kingdom.
Your cat may be absorbing more than you think.
This random filler text isn't so random after all.
Celtic may be pronounced either way in standard English—even if this bothers some people.
If you were born in 1991, not only do you have something in common with the World Wide Web, the Honeycrisp apple, and the Jerry Springer show, you got to grow up with these words that have their first Oxford English Dictionary citations in 1991.
Some birds communicate different meanings based on the order of the notes they sing.
The words we use for family members in English are specific about some things, but vague about others. These words will help fill in the gaps.
Tiger, moon, and buttonhole are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to words you probably didn’t know could be used as verbs—so why not try dropping some of these into conversation?
English number words are pretty logical for the most part, but eleven and twelve really don’t fit in at all.
Of all the king’s intellectual interests, however, his love of language was perhaps the most significant—and he may have once sent two infants to live on an island with a deaf-mute woman just to see what would happen.
Disease terminology can tell us a lot about the (sometimes-misguided) history of medicine.
If a word sounds like its meaning, it’s easier to remember.
Knowing how to speak two languages is not the same thing as knowing how to translate. Don't believe us? Here are nine times a little translation mistake turned into a big problem.