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In languages like Inuktitut or Mohawk, a single, complex word can convey a thought that requires a full sentence in…
In English, we use optional phrases like "I heard" or "I saw" to show how we know something. But in…
This article explores the world of agglutinative languages like Turkish, Finnish, and Swahili, where long, complex words are built by…
In 1958, a fictional bird called a "wug" helped solve one of the biggest mysteries of the human mind: how…
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