Between the 1930s and 1970s, employees at Merriam-Webster created a massive “backward index.” It was a card catalog, containing all the words in its dictionary typed backwards. It eventually included around 315,000 index cards. The reason for creating this thing was to allow the company to find words with similar endings. Such as all words […]
Some languages don’t have the relative directions right…
Some languages don’t have the relative directions right/left. They instead use cardinal directions, for example: “It’s on the southern edge of the table.”
Zoo keepers in England had to learn French in order…
Zoo keepers in England had to learn French in order to speak to baboons coming from a French zoo, because the animals didn’t respond to English commands.
Tesla could speak eight languages : Serbo-Croatian…
Tesla could speak eight languages : Serbo-Croatian, Czech, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, and even Latin.
Most languages have a bias against left-handed people…
Most languages have a bias against left-handed people. Left is derived from ‘lyft’, meaning weak. In Dutch, ‘Link’ means cunning. In German, ‘link’ means questionable. In Mandarin, it’s zuô, meaning improper, and in Turkish the word for left is sol, which can mean both ‘die’ and ‘ill’.
There is a language in the northwest of Russia called…
There is a language in the northwest of Russia called Teri Sami, which is on the brink of extinction, as only 2 people remain who speak it.
There is a language in the northwest of Russia called…
There is a language in the northwest of Russia called Teri Sami, which is on the brink of extinction, as only 2 people remain who speak it.
People think more rationally in their second language…
People think more rationally in their second language and make better choices.
Left Is Right And Right Is Left – The Human Brain Crossover
In the human brain, the left side actually controls the movement of the right side of the body, and the right side of the brain controls the movements of the left side of the body. Although in many ways both sides of the human brain are equal in the way they work, each side however
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