The massive Oxford English Dictionary is, practically speaking, the official and exhaustive guide to the words of the English language. John Simpson, the Chief Editor, is retiring after 37 years with the project. He's sp...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/05/08/Etaoin-Shrdlu-and-Other-Odd-Words-in-the-Oxford-English-Dictionary/
For the first time, a Star Wars movie will be available in a Native American language. The Navajo Nation Museum and Lucasfilm are working together to dub Episode IV into Dine, the language of the Navajo people:The script...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/04/29/Star-Wars-Will-Be-Translated-into-Navajo/[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BxtXvDhSb0](Video... ...understand Israeli rap music. Now he can speak 23 languages , including Hindi, Arabic, Latin, Swahili and Ojib... ...h people around the world and quickly absorbs new languages as he does so.-via Slate (warning: auto-sound)
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/04/12/16-Year-Old-Can-Speak-23-Languages/
Graham Cansdale is a professional translator at th... ...on in Brussels. He is considered fluent in the 14 languages he uses in his work, but he has studied other languages . Cardinal Giuseppe Mezzofanti was a linguist who... ...1849; he was said to have known between 40 and 72 langua...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/03/01/How-Many-Languages-is-it-Possible-to-Know/[youtube F07HZCULT4c](Video Link)It's hard enough to write with both hands at the same time. But Chen Siyuan of Handan, China can do even more: she can simultaneously write Chinese with one hand and English with the othe...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/12/14/Woman-Can-Write-in-Two-Different-Languages-at-the-Same-Time/
Two linguists argue that modern English isn't real... ...English and modern English are two very different languages . “We think Old English simply died out,&rdq... ...viously believed. Both today’s Scandinavian languages place the object after the verb, for example, unl... ...rms can also be the...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/12/08/Scholars-English-Is-a-Scandinavian-Language/
Exclamation points are useful for communicating emphasis! But where did this punctuation mark come from?!The current running theory is that it comes from Latin. In Latin, the exclamation of joy was io, where the i was wr...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/08/26/A-History-of-the-Exclamation-Point/
Today is Presidents Day in the US, and it is U... ...d multilingualism, and to learn about the world's languages . National Geographic has an interactive world map... ...an interactive world map highlighting areas where languages are in danger of dying out, as part of their Endu... ...s Project. As it is now,...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/02/21/disappearing-languages/(YouTube link) Hear New Year greetings in languages used all over the world. WojtekNYC assembled this...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/03/43-languages-one-message/
The Economist has an article about how languages can be said to be, comparatively speaking, more o... ...t is an obligatory ending on the verb. Evidential languages force speakers to think hard about how they learn...
http://www.neatorama.com/2010/01/02/what-is-the-most-complex-language-in-the-world/
