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John Searle's famous "Chinese Room" thought experiment poses a timeless challenge to the idea of a truly thinking machine. By…
We can recall scents with startling clarity, yet we struggle to describe them, a phenomenon known as the olfactory-verbal gap.…
From "tannic" to "terroir," the world of wine has invented a specialized language to describe complex sensory experiences that are…
Have you ever wondered why a spiky shape just *feels* like a "Kiki" and a rounded one a "Bouba"? This…
Why can we describe a shade of blue with a dozen words, but struggle to articulate the scent of rain?…
Ever wonder why we have a dozen words for the toilet? This is the "euphemism treadmill," a linguistic cycle where…
Ever wonder how your phone knows you mean the band Queen, not a monarch? This post explores the linguistic challenge…
Discover the powerful story of Raphael Lemkin, the Polish-Jewish lawyer who witnessed the horrors of the Holocaust and created a…
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