The Way You React to Typos Could Be Linked to Your Personality, Study Finds
Are you a member of the grammar police, or willing to let a few typos slide? It turns out your reaction to written errors may say something about your personality.
Are you a member of the grammar police, or willing to let a few typos slide? It turns out your reaction to written errors may say something about your personality.
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.
You probably know a handful of medical terms—but what about Code Brown? Or incarceritis?
Some birds communicate different meanings based on the order of the notes they sing.
The English language loves a good loan word.
A study of online strategy game-players revealed an unsettling trend.
A new analysis of thousands of books finds that bestselling titles from the last few decades contain fewer strongly positive or negative words than older works such as ‘Pride and Prejudice’.
Over the years, this mental literary fail has gone by many names: work decrement, extinction, reminiscence, verbal transformation. But the best known and recognized term is "semantic satiation."
Unlike other "languages," sign language—be it American or otherwise—is a visual language, and therefore, can take a long time to master.
These scripts remain mysterious.
What we say today shapes the vocabulary of tomorrow.
Some scholars have dedicated decades of their lives to cracking the code.
The word “huh” packs a lot of meaning into just one syllable.
What was once literature's favorite exclamation is now as dead as the Romantic poets who used it.
When we’re looking to describe an amount that’s teensy-weensy, the words aren’t precise, but they are folksy and charming.
Did you know the phenomenon has a name?
It's no coincidence that the word used to describe dear old dad was so similar across distinct classical languages.
Take a look at how different languages are connected to one another with this wonderful illustration by Minna Sundberg.
For over a century, a controversy has been brewing over what might be called the Loch Ness Monster of dialect study: the elusive singular “y’all.” There are a few who claim to have seen it in the wild, and many who denounce such claims as nonsense. Does i
Lots of languages have distinct plural forms for "you." Wouldn't it be useful if English had one too?
It turns out, there are a number of things about English that conspire to make “I could care less” a less irrational phrase than it might seem.
Before Sochi was selected as the host of the 2014 winter Olympics, not many people had heard of it, so it didn't have a widely known English pronunciation.
Some situations are just too perfect for words, but these bits of lovely lingo will shorten that list ever so slightly.