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Why Dante Is the Father of the Italian Language

Long before Italy was a unified nation, its people spoke a mosaic of regional dialects, with prestigious Latin reserved for…

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Why Icelandic Creates New Words, Not Borrows Them

While English readily borrows words, Icelandic takes a different path, deliberately creating new terms from its Old Norse roots. This…

2 weeks ago

When Siblings Lie: Germanic False Friends

English and German are sibling languages, but like any family, they have their misunderstandings. This article explores "false friends"—deceptive words…

3 weeks ago

Words Without Parents: Linguistic Orphans

Every word has a family tree, but what about the "orphan words"—linguistic mysteries like *dog*, *bad*, and *quiz*—that appear in…

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Your Voice as Currency: Linguistic Capital

Ever feel like you're being judged not on what you say, but *how* you say it? You're not imagining it.…

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The Alphabet That Failed

In the 1960s, a radical new alphabet for English was born, bankrolled by the will of playwright George Bernard Shaw.…

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The Viking’s Echo: When Icelandic Met Norwegian

What happens when a language preserved in a 1,000-year-old time capsule re-encounters its rapidly evolved cousin? The meeting of Icelandic…

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The Press That Froze Language

The invention of the printing press was a revolution not just for knowledge, but for language itself. Before Gutenberg, language…

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Are There Two Norwegian Languages?

Most people may be surprised to learn that there are two Norwegian languages: Bokmål and Nynorsk. Not dialects, mind you,…

2 years ago

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