1. What do you say to embarrass a polar bear? 2. How might an underwater society write? 3. Can a creature without teeth say "tooth"? 4. How many verbs for "to pray" does an angel need? These are some of the questions students have pondered in "Invented Languages" at Stephen F.
By 2066, linguists are predicting that the "th" sound will vanish completely in the capital because there are so many foreigners who struggle to pronounce interdental consonants - the term for a sound created by pushing the tongue against the upper teeth.
One of the central questions of Words R Us is what conditions fostered the emergence of language. In this article, you can discover where the 'F' and 'V' sounds, so challenging to replicate in ventriloquism, came from. A hint is that diet influenced the human bite and mouth shape, but take a peek to find out more!