November 14, 2018
It has always been relatively common knowledge that, despite their far-reaching civilisation and imp...
November 5, 2018
Scientists have conducted an experiment to understand why people have such strong aversions to words...
October 10, 2018
In October 2017, Sergey Zheleznyak of Russia’s State Duma Committee on International Affairs spoke...
August 14, 2018
The idea of there being certain words that simply don’t exist in other languages, and correspondin...
July 9, 2018
Studies in the field of cultural psychology have suggested that Chinese people tend to express psych...
July 7, 2018
Last year, the Académie française (a council constituting the official authority on the French lan...
June 22, 2018
If you frequently answer questions with “huh?” chances are you’ve been disapprovingly told to ...
June 8, 2018
Quite when human language first came about is still something of a mystery. Nevertheless, most schol...
May 18, 2018
You may think that dealing with figures is integral to any society, but in fact, not all cultures u...
May 1, 2018
It has fallen into our common knowledge that children are simply “better at learning languages” ...
April 25, 2018
Increasingly over the last few decades, transgender visibility has started to cross over into the pu...
April 9, 2018
A French waiter who was fired for being rude and disrespectful has recently made headlines for filin...
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