(Photo: Kimberly Vardeman)And as a Texan, I could not be more proud!Dan Solomon of Texas Monthy researched this phenomenon. He found that this Norwegian term is several decades old and has its origins in old Western movi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/10/21/In-Norwegian-Texas-Is-Slang-for-Crazy/The European Union brings together speakers of man... ...e European Union brings together speakers of many languages for the purposes of commerce, finance, administra... ...nd produces documents using English as its common language . However, when you get so many non-native English...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/10/15/The-Odd-Dialect-Called-EU-English/(Photo via War Eagle Reader)The rabbits in the nov... ...owern found in her study of a group of Australian languages , is the number five:Surprisingly, they tended to... ...h five as an upper limit are rare in Pama-Nyungan languages .“This is surprising, given the predominance...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/10/07/How-Societies-Learn-to-Count-to-10/When you hear the term “grammar police,” you probably don’t picture real law enforcement officers. What if those cops really did enforce proper grammar? Juliana Gray and Erica Dawson imagined just that...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/09/24/Strunk-White-Grammar-Police/[https://youtu.be/XRVVCbXmYJo]YouTube LinkIn this,... ...interesting in that it began as sort of a secret language or code, particularly given that some non-Brit En...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/08/28/History-of-Cockney-Rhyming-Slang-and-How-to-Correctly-Speak-It/(Photo: Ron Knight)The chestnut-crowned babbler bird (Pomatostomus ruficeps) is a small bird native to Australia. Researchers think that its chirps and calls are radically different from those identified in other birds....
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/07/03/Babbler-Bird-Calls-Convey-Meaning/The most common spoken language in Brazil is Portuguese. Then it's German, which... ...an interactive map of the world that shows which languages are the second most widely spoken in each country... ...s that English is the second most commonly spoken language in a majority of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/06/05/The-Second-Most-Spoken-Languages-around-the-World/You may have heard the joke about the English teac... ...sarcastic tone of voice. But now we have another language conundrum popping up that can be difficult to par... ...site. Out of the million-odd words in the English language , perhaps a hundred have this property. You can se...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/04/09/When-No-Means-Yes/[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbxrwqaeypQ](Video Link)How do you know that your child is doing well learning English? When an English-speaking face appears in the mouth of your child, as though a demon has possessed h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/03/01/Terrifying-Ad-for-an-English-Language-School/(Image: CBS)Caleb Everett, Damián E. Blasi... ...of their research into common characteristics of languages based on native climate. They conclude that as languages evolve, their dominant sounds reflect the climate... ...In particular, humidity plays a major role. Tonal languag...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/02/12/Scholars-Determine-That-Climate-Shapes-How-Languages-Sound/
