Ever wondered which is the most difficult language in the world? Well that depends on what languages you already speak. It makes sense that languages which are more similar to your own native language are easier to learn.
Would you all be amenable to this? Is there anything you’d like to do differently? For example, should we indicate on the page somewhere that this is an obsolete (or at least archaic) historical spelling?
You like your food without preservatives? Then you may be tempted to ask for food “sans préservatifs” thinking you’re using one of many French words whose meaning is identical in French and English.. Unfortunately for you, “préservatif” is a faux-ami, one of several words whose meaning is radically different in French and in English despite being …
Tibeto-Burman languages: Tibeto-Burman languages, language group within the Sino-Tibetan family. In the early 21st century, Tibeto-Burman languages were spoken by approximately 57 million people; countries that had more than 1 million Tibeto-Burman speakers included Myanmar (Burma; about 29 million), China (some 17.2
Esperanto, an overview for computer users. Unfortunately, there is a bug in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 and if you do include that metatag, all …
LINK TO LIVE FORUM LINK TO SLOVAK FORUM = free discussion 2008-12-29: I spent about two hours earlier today writing a response to a poster at the blognik.com site who wrote: Pacxemu “Sviatakis” ?
Maybe you’re an atheist who has been reading and commenting here for a while. Or perhaps this is your first visit to Strange Notions. Whatever the case, the question remains: what should you do if Catholicism begins making sense? Leah Libresco faced that question head on in June 2012 when, after mon
Port Manteaux churns out silly new words when you feed it an idea or two. Enter a word (or two) above and you’ll get back a bunch of portmanteaux created by jamming together words that are conceptually related to your inputs.. For example, enter “giraffe” and you’ll get back words like “gazellephant” and “gorilldebeest”.
A list of every Word of the Year selection released by Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com’s first Word of the Year was chosen in 2010.
George Walkden at New Books in Language:. Who were the Indo-Europeans? Were they all-conquering heroes? Aggressive patriarchal Kurgan men, sweeping aside the peaceful civilizations of Old Europe?
