There was an American Indian pidgin English. It wasn’t just a number of Native Americans not speaking English right. There were conventions in this American Indian pidgin English. […]
Russenorsk was quite unusual in that it developed from a situation in which there was a strong element of mutuality, as expressed in the name for it – ‘moja po toja’. […]
Pidgins differ from languages in having fewer vowels, fewer words and fewer difficult consonants. They are partial languages. […]
The main idea of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is that the structure of our grammar channels the way we think. There have been experiments to support this, but the hypothesis has never been proven to the extent that is often implied. […]
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis states that the structure of our grammar channels the way we think. However, there are challenges in this hypothesis. […]
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis states that the structure of our grammar channels the way we think. However, the recent studies that have been aimed at the issue, have been extremely unpromising. […]
Modern English has diverged from the Germanic nature of Old English. It was a result of the Viking influence in England. While learning Old English, they introduced some changes to the language. […]
There is something odd about Proto-Germanic in comparison to other languages that come from the same source: Proto-Indo-European. The sounds are different, and sometimes the consonants too. […]
Proto-Indo-European became many subfamilies, one of which was Proto-Germanic which eventually gave rise to English. […]
What started as a college project in 2004 turned into an epoch-making point of history. Facebook heralded the rise of social media to democratize the flow of information and make it available to everyone. […]
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