linguistics
The Strange Persistence of First Languages
After my father died, my journey of rediscovery began with the Czech language.
Why Red Means Red in Almost Every Language
The confounding consistency of color categories.
5 Languages That Could Change the Way You See the World
How habits of speech can shape our thoughts.
Shakespeare’s Genius Is Nonsense
What the Bard can teach science about language and the limits of the human mind.
The Family That Couldn’t Say Hippopotamus
The origins of language are not what inherited disorders seemed to suggest.
44 Years of Debating the First Words Ever Spoken on the Moon
It’s amazing that we aren’t uncertain about words more often.

