Joshua David Stein of Wired made a fascinating observation: the letter E, long the most common letter in the English language, has lost its prominence in the internet age. Many internet brands, such as Flickr and Tumblr,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/12/05/An-Obituary-for-the-Letter-E/I suspect that most Americans will be familiar with both terms, thanks to the prevalence of British television in the United States (thank you, Doctor Who and Downton Abbey).But, British visitors, you may want to study t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/18/The-Differences-Between-British-and-American-English/Mr. Lovenstein explains why websites offer multiple translations in the same language.I'd find it handy if websites came in Texan English in addition to, you know, foreign English. But that service is rarely available.Li...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/09/13/Website-Translation-Options/Some words can't be translated into other languages without a lot of explanation. Ella Frances Sander...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/09/02/Illustrations-of-11-Untranslatable-Words/Ellway, ouyay udystay igpay atinlay inway orderway otay articipatepay inway away eatgray intellectualway aditiontray, asway ellway asway otay earnlay ethay ammargray ofway ouryay ativenay anguagelay.Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/08/31/Language-Studies/(Photo: SarahB-)Every year, lexicographers--people who write dictionaries--have to delete words from newer editions of dictionaries. How do they decide which words to eliminate? Jen Doll of The Atlantic explains:To deter...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/08/20/How-to-Edit-a-Dictionary/Search Google for the definition of the word liter... .... Literally now means its own antonym.I know that languages evolve over time. But can we reclaim the first de...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/08/13/Literally-Now-Literally-Means-Figuratively/[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEyXI4oYAwM](Video... ...o Link)PolyglotPal asked speakers of 15 different languages to pronounce the longest words in those languages . Hungarian apparently has a word that means "for...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/08/06/Whats-the-Longest-Word-in-Your-Language/[http://vimeo.com/25215616](Video Link)How do dogs... ..."Hav hav."This video by properniceinnit shows how languages around the world express the vocalizations of dog...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/07/11/Animal-Sounds-in-Different-Languages/According to Idibon, a company that makes language... ...e processing applications, these are the weirdest languages on different continents:In North America: Chalcat... ...elative frequency of that value for all the other languages that are coded for it. So if we had included subj... ...m one). In this blog...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/07/03/What-Are-the-Weirdest-Languages-in-the-World/
