Is the word "cat" purely random, or does the sound itself carry the essence of the animal? We revisit Plato’s…
aUI (the Language of Space) is a constructed language created by Dr. John Weilgart, who claimed it was taught to…
Uncover the fascinating linguistic constraint of E-Prime (English Prime), a version of English that completely eliminates the verb "to be."…
Explore Ithkuil, a constructed language designed for maximum precision and conciseness, featuring 96 grammatical cases and logic so dense that…
"This sentence is false." It is a simple statement that traps logic in an infinite loop: if it's true, it's…
Have you ever repeated a word so many times that it started to sound like nonsense? This psychological phenomenon is…
From an Egyptian pharaoh to a Holy Roman Emperor, history is dotted with cruel attempts to discover humanity's "natural" language…
What happens when a word that doesn't exist appears in the dictionary? For thirteen years, the non-word 'dord' lived in…
Have you ever wondered how a simple action can be described with endless detail? The secret lies in a hidden…
Imagine a speaker in a new language points to a rabbit and says "gavagai." How do you know if it…
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