Linguistics

Why Are Many English Words Spelled Differently Than They Are Pronounced?

English is a peculiar language in many ways, and one of its most baffling features is the inconsistency between pronunciation…

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Language Stories: Darwin and the Birth of Ethnolinguistics

The narrative of Charles Darwin's voyage aboard the HMS Beagle, while famous for its contributions to evolutionary biology, is seldom…

2 years ago

Language Stories: “Up With This, I Will Not Put”

In the annals of linguistic anecdotes, few stories are as enduring, entertaining or illuminating as the exchange attributed to the…

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Language Stories: The Great Emu War of Languages

Among the myriad anecdotes about languages, none encapsulates the eccentricity and wonder of linguistic evolution quite like the story of…

2 years ago

Language Stories: The Great ‘Eskimo Snow Words’ Debate

Among the many charming anecdotes in the world of linguistics, the 'Eskimo Snow Words' story holds a position of considerable…

2 years ago

Cracking the Code: The Fascinating Journey of Deciphering Hieroglyphs

From the enigmatic scribbles painted on cave walls by early humans, to the complex codes employed by modern computer programmers,…

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The Role of Portuguese in the Age of Exploration

From the 15th to the 17th century, a period known as the Age of Exploration, or the Age of Discovery,…

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Archaic Portuguese Words: A Journey through Literature

In the kaleidoscopic world of language evolution, words ebb and flow, surge, and retreat like the waves of an ocean.…

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How Does Machine Translation Work?

If you've ever used an online tool to translate a sentence from one language to another, you've experienced machine translation…

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Using Navajo as a Military Code Language

The global field of military communication has seen a variety of innovative and inventive strategies over centuries, from flag signals…

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