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We often think of language as purely mental, but speaking is a physical act that burns calories. This post explores…

The Agglutination Barrier: Why AI Chokes on Words

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Ever wonder why your AI translator can handle "I love you" but butchers a single complex word in Turkish or…

A Linguistic Map of the Pre-Columbian Americas

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Long before 1492, the Americas were a kaleidoscope of linguistic diversity. The controversial "three-wave" migration theory attempts to explain this…

The Poet’s Gene: Language in Williams Syndrome

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Williams Syndrome presents a fascinating linguistic paradox where remarkable verbal eloquence and a love for unusual words coexist with significant…

Reading Right-to-Left: How Scripts Shape the Brain

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Does the direction you read in change how you perceive the world? This article delves into the surprising science of…

The Reader’s Leap: Why Your Eyes Skip Words

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Reading feels like a smooth, continuous flow, but your eyes are actually performing a frantic, jerky dance across the page.…

The Dental Print: How Teeth Shape Speech

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Beyond the agile movements of the tongue and lips, our teeth stand as silent, crucial architects of speech. From the…

The Sound of an Ancient City

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We visualize the grand columns of the Roman Forum or the towering ziggurats of Babylon, but have you ever stopped…

Decoding the Antarctic Dialect

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The Alphabet That Failed

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In the 1960s, a radical new alphabet for English was born, bankrolled by the will of playwright George Bernard Shaw.…

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