The development of language gave early societies a... ...history, and all those are pretty important. Dr. Erica Brozovsky of Other Words (previously at Neatorama) goes thr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/06/26/Some-Words-Really-Are-Magic/"Jargon" refers to language that only means someth... ...s and still not say anything useful. Linguist Dr. Erica Brozovsky (previously at Neatorama) explains how this langu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/05/23/The-Scourge-of-Nonsensical-Corporate-Jargon/A controversy among linguists which has been ragin... ...to how languages were all originally related? Dr. Erica Brozovsky (previously at Neatorama) explains how linguists...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/27/Do-All-Human-Languages-Have-Basic-Grammar-Rules/You've heard the phrase "don't think about an elep... ...e that's taking the elephant analogy too far. Dr. Erica Brozovski (previously at Neatorama) explains nega...
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 t... ...and science, unlike, say, Sanskrit. Linguist Dr. Erica Brozovski (previously at Neatorama) takes us thro...
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... ...ng us, 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... ...a boost 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... ...will argue 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... ...op students 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... ...ed the 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/
