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Excorporation is a rare linguistic process where a grammatical piece, once bound inside a larger word, "escapes" to become an…
Have you ever wondered how a simple action can be described with endless detail? The secret lies in a hidden…
How are new languages born from scratch? This article explores the fascinating debate over creolization, contrasting the "abrupt" theory, where…
Ever wonder if that glowing five-star review is too good to be true? The secrets of deceptive writing are often…
Ever wonder how a single word can have multiple meanings based only on its melody? This post explores "tone spreading",…
Ever wonder why German has a word for taking pleasure in someone else's misfortune (*Schadenfreude*), but English doesn't? This post…
Your native language does more than just give you words for "left" and "right"; its very grammar shapes how you…
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