Science Oxford But the British soon got the hang of profanity. By Emily Reed / 03.15.2018 Doctoral...
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The terribly good Brief Encounter (1945). The BFI/Eagle Lion Distributors Is British English being swallowed up by American English – or are both versions...
TonelloPhotography/Shutterstock.com Each discipline tells us only part of the story. And so the truest picture of prehistory comes from...
Linguistic controversy: could ultraconserved words point to deep language ancestry across Eurasia? Sharon Mollerus Looking at language in...
Nisarg Desai observes wild chimps known as Sandi, Ferdinand and Siri in Tanzania. Michael Wilson, CC BY-ND Do chimpanzee talk to...
In the 19th century, federal policy shifted from a policy of extermination and displacement to assimilation. The...
Harvard instructor Sunn m’Cheaux worked with 30 Vassal Lane Upper School seventh-graders, teaching them the origin of...
A relief at the ancient Persian city of Persepolis (now in modern Iran), including inscriptions in cuneiform,...
What can a modern-day Creole language tell us about its first speakers in the 1600s? M M,   ...
New linguistics facility applies scientific tenets to understanding how we communicate. By Jill Radsken / 02.21.2018 Dorothy...
Sainte-Cecile Cathedral overlooking the Tarn River, Albi, France. Midi- Pyrénées / Encyclopedia Britannica By Dr. Friedrich Edelmayer...
Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 02.15.2018 Historian Brewminate Editor-in-Chief 1 – Introduction to Language 1.2 –...
Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Joachim Whaley / 05.11.2015 Professor of German History and Thought University of Cambridge...
Mezzofanti as pictured in the frontispiece to The Life of Cardinal Mezzofanti; with an introductory memoir of eminent...
Johann Schleyer on a harp given to him as a 50th birthday present by his colleagues at Sionsharfe,...
MS Sanskrit gamma 194 / Wellcome Library Description Sanskrit is the oldest language known to man. It...
Ha! Photo by Getty Images   By Dr. Thomas Hills (left) and Tomas Engelthaler (right) / 11.20.2017 Hills: ...
Chimpanzees use alarm calls to inform each other of danger. / Ronald Woan, Flickr Nonhuman primates clearly...
This khipu, which was made before the Spanish conquest of the Incas, was probably used for accounting, as...
Jamie Thomas, AB ’06, studies zombies, language, race and othering at Swarthmore College. Photo by Jennifer Weisbord...
‘You can never, in American public life, underestimate the advantages of complete and total incomprehensibility.’ Kissinger meets...
Everyone sees them all, but we don’t all give them the same distinct names. lazyllama/Shutterstock.com  By Dr....