(Photo: Elliott Brown)You're standing on a footbridge overlooking a train track. A train is coming down that track. It is about to hit and kill five people.A very heavy man is also on the bridge. If you push him off the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/05/01/Using-a-Foreign-Language-Affects-Your-Ethical-Reasoning/[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySQ2oIIO9Ik](Vide... ...n’s educational series that teaches foreign languages
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/03/18/Learn-Dothraki-the-Easy-Way/(Great Vocab Didn't Save the Thesaurus t-shirt now on sale at the NeatoShop)In a fascinating article for NPR, Alan Yu writes:Lera Boroditsky once did a simple experiment: She asked people to close their eyes and point so...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/03/06/How-Language-Shapes-How-We-Think/(Image: unknown)My Latin is really rusty, so I had to look this one up. YOLO (the acronym for "you only live once") is a first conjugation regular verb. It's often used as a hashtag on Twitter by people expressing their...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/02/14/How-to-Conjugate-YOLO-in-Latin/How good are you at identifying languages by their sounds? Out of thousands of languages spoken in the world, only 80 are in The Great Lan... ...the way. How much difference is there in several languages spoken in the former Yugoslavia, anyway? The firs... ...t is also goo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/02/07/The-Great-Language-Game/If you're a native English speaker, you may know more Japanese than you think. For example, the word "tycoon" has come to mean in English a wealthy and powerful business leader, such as the above pictured Howard Hughes....
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/01/23/11-English-Words-That-Were-Originally-Japanese/(USS Kearsarge vs. CSS Alabama by Xanthus Smith)I’m exaggerating, of course. But proper grammar became a point of dispute in the negotiations between the United States and the United Kingdom that led to the 1871 Tr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/12/13/1871-War-Averted-Between-the-US-and-Britain-When-the-US-Agrees-to-Not-Split-Infinitives/[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cSYIhQ522A](Vide... ...e's handy guide to saying "merry Christmas" in 40 languages , including Farsi, Lithuanian and Korean.
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/12/13/How-to-Say-Merry-Christmas-in-40-Languages-Including-Klingon-and-Esperanto/(Image: NeatoFrog T-shirt)It’s “pad kid poured curd pulled cold.”Can you say that? How fast? How fast can you say it 10 times? That was the test developed by psychologists at the Massachusetts Institute...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/12/10/Researchers-at-MIT-Invent-the-Worlds-Toughest-Tongue-Twister/(Image from the movie Valley Girl, Atlantic Entertainment)Like, ohmygod you guys! Just gag me with a spoon ‘cause according to these dweebs, young California men are like totally talking like Valley Girls:"We found...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/12/09/Study-California-Men-Are-Increasingly-Talking-in-the-Valley-Girl-Dialect/
