What term do you use for a generic person: bro, buddy, dude, fella, or pal? Jack Grieve, a forensic linguist, analyzed tweets to create heat maps showing the relative frequency of these words. You can view the other maps...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/12/26/Are-You-a-Dude-A-Buddy-Or-a-Pal/[http://youtu.be/AWu3LhfA3fw] (YouTube link)You&rs... ...and England are two countries divided by a common language . You can says that the U.S. and Australia are div... ...at the U.S. and Australia are divided by a common language plus 12,000 miles. Mark and Christi Brown are a b... ...eaching us the differe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/11/17/Australian-and-American-Words/Any Star Wars fan will recognize an imitation of the Jedi Muppet Yoda even in text because of his peculiar syntax. But is it really so peculiar? There are plenty of examples from history -many from Shakespeare- of the sa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/11/13/Why-So-Strangely-Yoda-Speaks/What does the sound of breakfast frying on the sto... ...sizzle,” but what’s the word in other languages ? James Chapman rounded up several words from vari... ...mes Chapman rounded up several words from various languages , and they’re all pretty onomatopoeic. Which... ...autocorrect. -via B...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/09/30/The-Sound-of-Frying/Komorebi (Japanese): n. The sunlight that filters... ...d her to reflect on how many words from different languages are beautifully descriptive, yet cannot easily be... ...rds that exemplify the beauty and nuance of human language . Visit Sanders' website for Lost in Translation t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/09/25/Wonderful-Foreign-Words-With-No-English-Equivalent-Illustrated/[http://youtu.be/SAjcJDoz9wM] (YouTube link)The language of sea travel may seem like a foreign language to you, as it does to me. In an examination of th... ...dquo;! What could possibly go wrong? But like all language
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/09/19/Why-Port-and-Starboard-Indicate-Left-and-Right/It's not whether you speak English ... it's what dialect of American English do you speak. A decade ago, Robert Delaney of Long Island University put together a map of the various American English dialects (and su...
https://www.neatorama.com/neatopicto/2014/09/10/So-Which-American-English-Dialects-Do-You-Speak/Once while giving a driving lesson, I told my daug... ...She became highly offended that I would use such language , and didn’t learn a thing that day besides...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/07/29/50-Words-That-Sound-Rude-But-Actually-Arent/Our language and how we use it owes a lot to the movies. The t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/07/25/11-Movie-Titles-That-Became-Part-of-the-Lexicon/[http://youtu.be/8Gv0H-vPoDc] (YouTube link)Gramma... ...Blurred Lines” gets right to the point: use language properly, or keep it to yourself on the internet....
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