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Thursday, March 2, 2023

American man developed an Irish accent after getting prostate cancer—foreign accent syndrome explained by Johan Verhoeven and Stefanie Keulen SOURCE: Medical Xpress

"To date, around 200 cases of foreign accent syndrome have been reported in clinical studies, making it quite a rare speech disorder."

Thursday, October 27, 2022

Schumer gives a Yiddish lesson in new campaign ad

Sunday, June 19, 2022

How France Tries to Keep English Out of Public Life By Feargus O'Sullivan SOURCE: Bloomberg

 "It’s not that English is somehow a corrupting influence, it’s more that adopting its terms wholesale has a homogenizing, flattening effect. It’s only a pity that France’s institutional affection for its national language doesn’t seem to extend to its many indigenous minority languages (such as Breton and Occitan), mention of which the Académie Française has actively petitioned to keep out of the constitution."

Qu'est-ce que c'est? Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo was chided in 2017 for projecting this English phrase on the Eiffel Tower during the city’s Olympic bid.

Qu'est-ce que c'est? Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo was chided in 2017 for projecting this English phrase on the Eiffel Tower during the city’s Olympic bid.Francois Mori/AP

Thursday, January 13, 2022

'We conclude' or 'I believe?' Study finds rationality declined decades ago by Wageningen University FROM Phys.org

"The authors did find that the shift from rationality to sentiment in book language accelerated around 2007 with the rise of social media, when across languages the frequency of fact-related words dropped while emotion-laden language surged, a trend paralleled by a shift from collectivistic to individualistic language."


Sunday, May 23, 2021

Scientists find 'missing link' behind first human languages By Harry Baker FROM Live Science

Friday, February 15, 2019

How Speaking a Second Language Affects the Way You Think BY David Ludden Ph.D. FROM Psychology Today

Tuesday, April 17, 2018

A minute for Macaulay BY Sudhir Chella Rajan FROM The Hindu

Sunday, December 3, 2017

Jonathan joins an Indian company. [funny video]


Sunday, September 10, 2017

How Speaking a Second Language Affects the Way You Think by David Ludden Ph.D. FROM Psychology Today

Saturday, August 15, 2015

China sponsors S Africa to teach Mandarin in schools by Azad Essa FROM Al Jazeera

Thursday, November 21, 2013

Johnson: Do different languages confer different personalities? by R.L.G. from The Economist

Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Simple, logical and doomed FROM The Economist [about Esperanto, an invented language]

Saturday, July 13, 2013

Vocabulary Wars – How Nations Compete For Their Terminologies by THORSTEN PATTBERG FROM Big Think

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

The Chinese Language, Ever Evolving -- 4 Opinions -- FROM The New York Times "Room for Debate" section

Four views on the pros and cons of simplified Chinese characters. If it's too long, please note that each section can be read independently of the others.

Friday, March 8, 2013

Keith Chen: Could your language affect your ability to save money? FROM TED Talk

In case you haven't read the BBC article, here is a video:

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Why speaking English can make you poor when you retire By Tim Bowler FROM The BBC

Monday, December 26, 2011

What is the Chinese language? FROM The Economist [very short article]

Monday, November 21, 2011

Spanish in America FROM The Economist [short article]

"The third generation is completely immersed and fluent in English, speaking little to no Spanish."

Monday, June 6, 2011

A Curious Case Of Foreign Accent Syndrome by Jane Greenhalgh FROM NPR

This seems to be real, but sure sounds like a hoax.
"Other cases include a British woman from Devon who developed a Chinese accent following a migraine, and another British woman who had a stroke and now sounds French."

Sunday, April 24, 2011

#@*! Swearing really is a powerful painkiller, study shows By Melissa Dahl FROM MSN

"Interestingly, women reported feeling less pain after swearing a blue streak."

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