Publication and Review of "Found in Translation: How Language Shapes Our Lives and Transforms the World"

Popular and unpopular dialects in Germany.  Blog comment based on a German newspaper article.

This is a map of the wheel-ruts of modern English. Etymologies are not definitions

In bilingual societies, people frequently switch between languages, particularly in emotional situations. Thus, the language that a person chooses to express a particular concept can help to provide cues that reveal his or her emotional state.

Infographic about the speed of languages, that is: how fast languages are spoken. Why do some languages sound like they're going by so fast, whereas others seem more slow and pronounced? A study was performed to find out why this is, and, it's more about the language density rather than the actual syllables per second. Slower languages tend to have a much higher information density, and the faster languages have less information transmitted per syllable; so it all evens itself out.