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People whose mother language is…

November 19, 2019Weirdo

People whose mother language is anumeric (a language that has no way of expressing arbitrary numbers) struggle to compare and remember the exact size of collections of as little as four objects. This suggests that numeric abilities are intrinsically related to linguistic abilities.

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Up to 50% of young twins develop…

March 19, 2019Weirdo

Up to 50% of young twins develop a secret language that can not be understood by others. The phenomenon is called cryptophasia and is thought to be created to communicate when one of the twins develop language slower than the other.

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Facebook created two AI…

November 22, 2018Weirdo

Facebook created two AI chatbots to converse with one other, only to shut them down when they began speaking in a language they had created for themselves.

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Older forms of English…

November 22, 2018November 22, 2018Weirdo

Older forms of English kept Latin’s gender specific suffixes -tor and -trix, -tor is for men and -trix is for women. So a male pilot is a aviator and a female pilot is a aviatrix. A male fighter is a gladiator and a female fighter is a gladiatrix.

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Since the 1300’s, the pronoun…

September 29, 2018Weirdo

Since the 1300’s, the pronoun “thou” was actually considered more informal and even derogatory than the pronoun “you.” This is also why its usage began declining in the 17th century; it was considered “impolite.”

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The common English-speaker has roughly…

November 13, 2017Weirdo

The common English-speaker has roughly 50,000 words within their mind and generally finds the correct one in approximately 600 milliseconds.

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Icelandic people actively work to eliminate…

November 1, 2017Weirdo

Icelandic people actively work to eliminate English “loanwords” in their language by inventing and substituting new words from Old Icelandic and Norse roots.

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The “Pirate speak” from movies and books was an actual…

August 16, 2016Weirdo

The “Pirate speak” from movies and books was an actual distinct dialect of English which was spoken until the 19th century in the west country. It became associated with pirates due to the strong seafaring tradition from the area.

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Calling football “soccer” originated in Britain…

August 1, 2016Weirdo

Calling football “soccer” originated in Britain 200 years ago. It wasn’t until the 1980s that Britain began to phase out the name because it was “too American”.

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The Italian words widely used in New Jersey…

July 19, 2016Weirdo

The Italian words widely used in New Jersey differ greatly from mainstream Italian today not because of bad “copying” but because the words came from people speaking an Italian dialect that subsequently died out in Italy.

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