How far back in time can you understand English? deadlanguagesociety.com/p/ho…
Why are some languages spoken faster than others? New research suggests that different tongues, regardless of speed, transmit information at roughly the same rate.
economist.com/graphic-detail…
“I dropped my toothpaste,” said Tom, crestfallen.
Nothing like a Tom Swifty for a hot July day!
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_…
You’d think we’d know where the word ‘bird’ came from… think again! phys.org/news/2024-07-common…
You’ve probably been discombobulated at one point or another, but have you ever been recombobulated? onmilwaukee.com/articles/rec…
Writing has been inexorably intertwined with language for thousands of years, and Unicode is the system used by modern computers to encode all the characters used by all the world’s writing systems. But nobody knows where one of them (⍼) came from!
ionathan.ch/2022/04/09/angza…
The usage of the word ‘boilerplate’ has a fascinating history that descends through many layers of adopted meanings. buttondown.email/hillelwayne…
