Most of us never think about punctuation when we r... ...dardized, 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,... ...ally is 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/Have you noticed the proliferation of the word "un... ...cause why would that word be banned? Linguist Dr. Erica Brozovsky
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/07/25/When-Linguistic-Self-Censorship-Goes-to-Extremes/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/
