A controversy among linguists which has been ragin... ...et of rules that people use, no matter what their language is? Anyone who has tried to learn a second or thi... ...? Anyone who has tried to learn a second or third language knows how different these languages can be. E...
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... ...ple negatives. However, there are rare cases when language is so confusing that we really have to stop and a...
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. Th... ...ie out when people don't use them. The death of a language is a gradual process that goes from a lack of nat... ...ery. We think of Latin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/02/28/Whats-the-Difference-Between-a-Dormant-Language-a-Dead-Language-and-an-Extinct-Language/Unless you are celebrating INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK... ...dized rules when writing or typing in the English language .Historically speaking, though, this is a fairly m... ..., though, this is a fairly modern invention. Many languages do not use different cases, including languages...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/11/18/Why-English-Has-Upper-Case-and-Lower-Case-Letters/The roots of the words we use for numbers vary aro... ...ll tell us about the anatomical origins of number language . -via Laughing Squid
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/08/30/Number-Words-and-the-Human-Body/[https://youtu.be/A8zWWp0akUU] (YouTube link)Engli... ....be/A8zWWp0akUU] (YouTube link)English is a weird language , in that the written version consists of letters...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/08/15/What-If-English-Were-Phonetically-Consistent/Teaching your child to speak and understand two (o... ...your child to speak and understand two (or more) languages is a great way to give him a leg up in life. He o... ...ildren claim that the best way to teach a child a language is OPOL, or the one-person, one- language meth...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/07/30/How-to-Raise-Multilingual-Kids/[https://youtu.be/vbBzXPQ4CFk] (YouTube link)This... ...t translates the English captions, not the spoken language
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/07/26/French-Restaurant/[https://youtu.be/IYqNnh4-kVk] (YouTube link)Warni... ...the trouble may be because they didn't switch the language of their app to Portuguese. They have stories of... ...ortuguese. They have stories of using map apps in languages that don't work well in the location they are dri...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/06/25/Using-GPS-in-Brazil/Fred Rogers had an uncanny ability to connect with... ...hat wasn't easy, since children lack the years of language practice and references that adults have. Rogers... ...on-air manner of speaking amounted to a distinct language they called “Freddish.”Fundamentally,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/06/08/Mr-Rogers-Had-a-Simple-Set-of-Rules-for-Talking-to-Children/
