Skeptophilia

Consider the simple interrogative English sentence, "She gave the package to him today?" Now, change one at a time which word is s...

When we think of the word "endangered," usually what comes to mind isn't "languages," but there are a staggering num...

I'm fortunate to have been raised in a bilingual home.  My mother's first language was French, and my dad (son of a father of French...

Sometimes I have thoughts that blindside me. The last time that happened was three days ago, while I was working in my office and our elde...

The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis  is the idea, first codified in the 1930s by linguists Edward Sapir and Benjamin Whorf, that a speaker's lang...

There's a controversial idea in the realm of linguistics called the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis .  Named after linguists Edward Sapir and Ben...

This post is brought to you by the color blue. But not to worry: this is not  about the damned dress, about which I have heard enough in ...