Nemeski@lemm.ee · 18 days agoFive common English words we don't know the origins of—including 'boy' and 'dog'plus-squarephys.orgexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up151arrow-down10
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sundray@lemmus.orgEnglish · 21 days agoBabbling scouse youngster shows babies can have accents, say scientistsplus-squarewww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up126arrow-down10
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Blaze@reddthat.comEnglish · 1 month agoWas there ever an African romance language?plus-squarewww.youtube.comexternal-linkmessage-square1fedilinkarrow-up122arrow-down11
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LvxferreM · edit-21 month ago2,500-year-old slate containing drawings of battle scenes and paleo-alphabet discovered in Spainplus-squarewww.livescience.comexternal-linkmessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up181arrow-down10
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Blaze@reddthat.comEnglish · 2 months agoBaudolino: Lying About the Future Produces History - Umberto Eco, author of The Name of the Rose, speaks about his latest book, Baudolino, including translationplus-squarewww.youtube.comexternal-linkmessage-square1fedilinkarrow-up18arrow-down10
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Deebster@programming.devEnglish · 2 months agoxkcd #2942: Fluid Speechplus-squareimgs.xkcd.comimagemessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up187arrow-down13
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Blaze@reddthat.com · 3 months agoWhy Romanian Isn't Like Other Languagesplus-squarewww.youtube.comexternal-linkmessage-square2fedilinkarrow-up115arrow-down11
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LvxferreM · 4 months agoFirst languages of North America traced back to two groups from Siberiaplus-squarephys.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up151arrow-down11
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Blaze@dormi.zoneEnglish · 4 months agoIs English just badly pronounced French?plus-squarewww.youtube.comexternal-linkmessage-square18fedilinkarrow-up132arrow-down111
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Daryl76679@lemmy.ml · edit-24 months agoNew Linguistics Technique Could Reveal Who Spoke the First Indo-European Languagesplus-squarearchive.isexternal-linkmessage-square2fedilinkarrow-up114arrow-down10
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Blaze@dormi.zoneEnglish · 5 months agoHow climate change is altering Sami languageplus-squarewww.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square1fedilinkarrow-up124arrow-down11
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Deebster@programming.devEnglish · edit-25 months agoIsolated for six months, scientists in Antarctica began to develop their own accentplus-squarewww.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up1147arrow-down12
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fossilesqueEnglish · 5 months agoHow likely are chance resemblances between languages?www.zompist.comexternal-linkmessage-square1fedilinkarrow-up17arrow-down10
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fossilesqueEnglish · edit-25 months agoHuman languages with greater information density have higher communication speed but lower conversation breadth - Nature Human Behaviourplus-squarearxiv.orgexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up146arrow-down11
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