You've heard the phrase "don't think about an elephant." It is impossible to achieve, because the word elephant implants that concept in our heads, despite the word "don't" that we understand. Understanding that negative...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/05/Negation-A-Difficult-Language-Concept-We-All-Understand/We all know what a living language is- those are the ones we use. But languages eventually die out when people don't use them. The death of a language is a gradual process that goes from a lack of native speakers to no s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/02/28/Whats-the-Difference-Between-a-Dormant-Language-a-Dead-Language-and-an-Extinct-Language/The words we use for body parts may be among the o... ...and have always been with us. Linguist Dr. Erica Brozovsky (previously at Neatorama) tells us about some of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/01/30/The-Words-for-Body-Parts-Tell-Us-a-Lot-About-the-History-of-Language/Television, before it was fractured into a million... ...t to anyone learning a second language. Dr. Erica Brozovsky (previously at Neatorama) explains what is happen... ...adults around them. At the end, we find that Dr. Brozovsky is just as cute without the red lipstick.
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/11/22/How-Television-Affects-Language-Acquisition/A creole language is one that arises from a mixtur... ...rgue about whether English is a creole. Dr. Erica Brozovsky (previously at Neatorama) explains the formation...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/11/02/The-Process-by-Which-New-Languages-Are-Born/When I started school in the 1960s, the two first... ...dents in high school were from Class A. Dr. Erica Brozovsky (previously at Neatorama) looks at both these met...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/09/19/The-War-Between-Phonics-and-Whole-Word-reading/When we say that someone talks like a sailor, that... ...first half of this sentence. Linguist Dr. Erica Brozovsky of Otherwords (previously at Neatorama) tells us...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/08/22/Why-Do-We-Use-So-Many-Nautical-Terms/If you want to build a cult around yourself, you h... ...In this episode of Otherwords, linguist Dr. Erica Brozovsky (previously at Neatorama) explains the regular fo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/06/20/The-Language-That-Builds-Cults/Everyone has an anthroponym, but that's okay. It's... ...t name their daughters "Miss" anymore). Dr. Erica Brozovsky (previously at Neatorama) explains why names beco...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/05/30/Does-Your-Anthroponym-Reveal-Your-Age/When a parent or partner calls you by a pet name,... ...from long ago. Our favorite linguist, Dr. Erica Brozovsky (previously at Neatorama) goes over the universal...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/05/13/Sugarpie-Honeybunch-Where-Pet-Names-Come-From/
