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The ding-dong theory . Some people, including the famous linguist Max Muller, have pointed out that there is a rather mysterious correspondence between sounds and meanings. Small, sharp, high things tend to have words with high front vowels in many languages, while big, round, low things tend to have round back vowels! Compare itsy bitsy teeny wee

Chapter Twenty focuses on language and culture, beginning with a discussion of concepts such as categories and how certain linguistic items are lexicalized in different languages. Subsequently, linguistic relativity is discussed with a detailed account of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis and a mention of the example of snow terms to argue against it. Cog

The bizarre myth that Ancient Greeks couldn't see blue

The Black Swan, the “Ludic Fallacy” refers to the misapplication of Stable Environment rules to an Unstable Environment. The word “Ludic” comes from the Latin word ludus, meaning “game,” as people falsely assume that the same strategies used to calculate probability within a game can be used in the real world.

El lenguaje, tanto el escrito como el oral, es la moneda más devaluada de estos tiempos. No siempre fue así: ha habido civilizaciones que lo apreciaban más que el oro

In human history, the domesticated horse plays a key role in cultural exchange. A study, Trautmann et al in “Science Advances” has found evidence supporting the role of horse domestication in spreading Indo-European (IE) languages, and cultures. Those cultures gave birth to the classical Celtic, Greco-Roman, Norse, Slavic, and Vedic myths, pantheon