The Speech of Sleep: Is Somniloquy a Language?

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Ever wondered if the mumbles and groans of a sleep-talker are just random noise? We take a linguistic deep dive…

How Algorithms Read Your Resume

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Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) don't "read" your resume; they parse it using strict linguistic rules. To get past this digital…

Color as a Grammatical Marker

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In most languages, color is purely descriptive, but in some systems, it plays a grammatical role. This post explores how…

Your Brain’s Internal Fact-Checker

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When you hear a false statement like "The sky is green", your brain reacts in milliseconds, long before you consciously…

The Lost Vowels of Proto-Semitic

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How do you reconstruct the vowels of an ancient language when its descendants, like Hebrew and Arabic, were written without…

The Syntax of Silence in Japanese

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Anti-Languages: The Grammar of the Underworld

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Ever wonder how marginalized groups create secret worlds right under our noses? This post explores "anti-languages"—the cunning linguistic codes of…

Error Cascades: One Typo, System-Wide Failure

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The One-Word Language Myth: Yaghan

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The viral myth claims *mamihlapinatapai* is an untranslatable Yaghan word for a romantic, unspoken look. The truth, however, is far…

The Birth of Grammatical Gender in PIE

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