Do all languages in the world originate from a single "mother... ...es - the consonants, vowels and tonal elements of languages , biologist Quentin D. Atkinson has claimed to dis... ...in D. Atkinson has claimed to discover that human languages originated in Africa:Dr. At...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/04/16/the-mother-of-all-languages/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JmA2ClUvUY] YouTube link. Your task, should you choose to accept it, is to determine what they are talking about. The missing sock? Or something more profound? Via Reddi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/03/28/talking-babies/The first use of the word "tsunami" in an Engl... ...The first use of the word "tsunami" in an English language publication was in the September 1896 issue of Na...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/03/18/how-tsunami-joined-the-english-language/On one hand, you have to feel for someone who... ...you have to feel for someone who is working in a language they don't know. On the other hand, these are too...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/03/09/20-fortune-cookie-fortunes-that-dont-make-any-sense/The following is an article from the science humor... ...hed in Curiosities and Regularities in Speech and Language , ed. by M Zygis, C. Mooshammer, P. Hoole, and S....
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/03/08/time-for-a-shave-does-facial-hair-interfere-with-visual-speech-intelligibility/It's a simple quiz game. It gives you a word, and you decide whether it's a cheese or font. How hard could this be? After all, I buy cheese at the grocery store and I have many fonts on my computer. Surprise! There...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/02/12/cheese-or-font/When you come across text you can't read, can... ...ext you can't read, can you at least identify the language ? Maybe sometimes? In today's Lunchtime Quiz at me... ...at mental_floss, you'll be given characters from languages not easily typed on your keyboard, and you match... ...y typed on your keyboard, an...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/31/whats-the-language/by Richard Lederer The Comedian of the K... ...was that rare comedian who never used foul language and never made fun of anyone. "The smile i... ...astonishingly, he became a genius in his second language -- English, which he learned by spending d... ...go, Victor Borge created...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/25/four-cheers-five-victor-borge/Whaaat? You didn't know that prairie dogs have the... ...You didn't know that prairie dogs have their own language ? (Cue Dramatic Prairie Dog clip)Professor Con Slo... ...alls: http://www.npr.org/2011/01/20/132650631/new- language -discovered-prairiedogese
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/22/the-language-of-prairie-dogs/Stanford University has an ongoing study of how ch... ...ersity has an ongoing study of how children learn language . Part of that study is how they learn color names...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/10/why-johnny-cant-name-his-colors/
