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LTR vs RTL: Why We Read The Way We Do

Ever wondered why English is read left-to-right, but Arabic and Hebrew are read right-to-left? The answer is a fascinating journey…

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Writing Your Voice: The Blissymbols System

Dive into the world of Blissymbols, a fascinating ideographic writing system designed as a universal language. Explore its logical grammar,…

4 weeks ago

The Sentence That Never Ends

Have you ever heard the nursery rhyme about the house that Jack built, where each line adds a new layer…

4 weeks ago

The Sentence That Never Ends

Have you ever heard the nursery rhyme about the house that Jack built, where each line adds a new layer…

4 weeks ago

Metonymy: The Brain’s Ultimate Linguistic Shortcut

Metonymy, where we use a related concept to stand in for the whole (e.g., "The White House announced..."), isn't just…

4 weeks ago

The Deafblind Alphabet: Tadoma and Lorm

How do you communicate when you can neither see nor hear? This post explores the incredible world of deafblind communication,…

4 months ago

The Word on the Tip of Your Tongue

We all know the maddening feeling of a word stuck on the tip of our tongue. This universal frustration isn't…

4 months ago

The Foreign-Language Effect: Thinking Rationally

Research suggests that thinking in a second language can reduce our emotional biases and override flawed mental shortcuts. This "foreign-language…

4 months ago

The Science of First Language Attrition

We celebrate learning new languages, but what about the one we learned first? First language attrition is the fascinating, and…

4 months ago

How the Deaf See Music

Music is often considered an auditory experience, but for the Deaf community, it's a world felt through powerful vibrations and…

4 months ago

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