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/"Dagnabbit" is a hilarious word that you probably... ...sity of Kentucky who specializes in Indo-European languages . Basically, we are scared of the true names of ce...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/03/15/The-Long-Linguistic-Journey-to-Dagnabbit/[https://youtu.be/QmUzEwT4yyY] (YouTube link)How m... ...ps://youtu.be/QmUzEwT4yyY] (YouTube link)How many languages can a person learn? How do language rules change over time? What are the most confusi... ...nguistics? And how does one begin to invent a new language ? These...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/03/15/Everything-You-Need-to-Know-About-English-and-Other-Languages/A Japanese comedy game show challenges a group of... ...hlight the difference in phonemes used in the two languages . Hirata, the contestant in the short skirt, is a... ...t in the short skirt, is a ringer who speaks both languages fluently. The rest did well enough in their Engli...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/02/09/Japanese-Game-Show-Voice-Recognition-Challenge/(Image credit: John Patrick Thomas)How one mysteri... ...the best treatment, mulling over Leborgne’s language problem. Broca had recently attended a scientific... ...the topic was whether intellectual functions like language could be traced to specific locations in the brai... ...aired generally, or if...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/02/08/Where-Does-Language-Live/Oh, if one person only had the power to do this! B... ...critical. But you never know what will catch on. Language is always evolving. Speculating on what a society...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/01/13/Making-Love/What we say today shapes the vocabulary of tomorro... ...e!). But generations can also be characterized by language , as seen in a new book by Allan Metcalf, From Ske...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/11/09/Talk-of-the-Times/Most of us don't think twice about our gestures other than the fact that they might help us communicate our thoughts more effectively. But while your nods and thumbs up might be fine to use in the US, you might want to t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/09/18/Gestures-You-Shouldnt-Use-in-Other-Countries/One language ’s long journey from humble to honorificabil... ...and universities used Latin, while French was the language of Britain’s royal court and legal system.... ...t they could use the printing press with everyday languages — even the debased English&...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/09/08/How-English-Was-Made/How one man formalized his gibberish and fooled Eu... ...ntriguing scholars interested in the migration of language . He spoke Latin as well, but it was blurry in com... ...hildren!), but what really sold the story was the language . In the early years of his hoax, Psalmanazar spok... ...erish to the next lev...
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