UTQIAĠVIK — Edna Ahgeak Paniattaaq MacLean smiled when her granddaughter Sirroun carried a thick tome with two hands and put it carefully on the table before her. “I had some young people or teenagers ...
In the 2016 film Arrival, a linguist must figure out how to communicate with enormous seven-limbed aliens, starting with no shared language at all. Her first trembling, breathless attempt to bridge ...
Though Americans have a reputation for being averse to foreign-language movies and television, that appears to be changing: consider South Korea's recent successes with "Parasite," which won the ...
Editor’s Note: David Peterson is the creator of the Dothraki language used in the HBO show ‘Game of Thrones.’ Peterson also is a member of the Language Creation Society. A 30-minute profile of ...
Mastering the finer grammatical and syntactical points of English is hard even for native speakers (show us a man who can rattle off the rules of lay vs. lie and we’ll show you a man who is obviously ...
“It didn’t matter if the sign said ‘flesh’ or ‘fresh’ or ‘meat,’” recalls Dougill, a professor at Ryukoku University, who has researched the use of English in Japan. “It was just there to catch people ...
Identical twins Matthew and Michael Youlden, renowned for their language skills, have achieved a rare linguistic feat, speaking 26 languages, including their secret, self-created language, Umeri.
This article was taken from the March issue of Wired UK magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by ...
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