The birth of a word
Another really interesting talk from TED titled “the birth of a word”. TED is a small non-profit organisation devoted to “ideas worth spreading”. Deb Roy, a researcher at MIT wired up his house with...
View ArticleLanguage of the future
What language will people speak in the future? That’s the subject of a chapter from new book “The Language Wars: A History of Proper English” by Farrar, Straus and Girous, extracted at Salon.com....
View ArticleGet learning – age is no excuse
One of the most often heard excuses for not learning a new language is “I’m too old”. It’s generally accepted that children are ‘better’ at learning new languages than adults. A new study challenges...
View ArticleNo bad words for bilinguals
Brains are complicated and odd things. Take new research from Bangor University in the UK. Researchers have found that an unconscious brain quirk dampens down people’s responses to negative words in...
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