You can argue about the First Amendment and freedo... ...pelling and usage, we defer to linguist Dr. Erica Brozovsky . She's not a stickler for correct usage, but she... ...ow languages develop and change over time. Today, Brozovsky explains how certain governments have tried to st...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/07/21/The-Way-Governments-Attempt-to-Standardize-Language/Can you describe a smell without referring to the... ...language to agree on descriptive words. Dr. Erica Brozovsky
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/06/24/The-Language-of-Smell-is-Strangely-Limited/Language is a funny thing. It changes over time, a... ...even more importantly, who looks at it. Dr. Erica Brozovsky (previously at Neatorama) breaks down the legal b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/05/26/When-Freedom-or-Prison-Rests-on-Defining-One-Word/Most slang words are coined to represent an age gr... ...t it's always a positive word. Linguist Dr. Erica Brozovsky
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/04/28/One-Slang-Word-is-the-Champion-of-Ubiquity-and-Longevity/Time is often thought of as the fourth dimension.... ...tation of the person you're talking to. Dr. Erica Brozovsky
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/03/31/How-We-Think-of-Time-Depends-on-the-Language-We-Use-For-It/When is a lie a lie? That may seem like a simple q... ...one of them technically a lie? Linguist Dr. Erica Brozovsky (previously at Neatorama) explains how complicate...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/03/04/Deception-Shading-the-Truth-False-Witness-and-Lies/K-Pop music arose in the 1990s, but you probably d... ...song? Nothing at all! In fact, linguist Dr. Erica Brozovsky (previously at Neatorama) thinks it's wonderful,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/02/03/The-Clever-Way-K-Pop-Makes-Two-Languages-Cool/When you name a product, you want that name to be... ...t was simply named for its ingredients. Dr. Erica Brozovsky (previously at Neatorama) gives us some tips on u...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/10/29/Linguistics-Can-Be-Crucial-in-a-Brand-Name/Most of us never think about punctuation when we r... ...ed, although they varied by language. Dr. Erica Brozovsky (previously at Neatorama) tells the story of how...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/09/23/How-and-Why-We-Have-Punctuation-Marks/What do the words woodchuck, cockroach, hangnail,... ...s derived from ground and hog. Linguist Dr. Erica Brozovsky (previously at Neatorama) explains what happened...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/08/21/Folk-Etymology-Word-Origins-That-Are-Just-Plain-Wrong/
