Category: bad linguistics (page 3 of 3)

49: Linguistic Savings

An economist has determined that the difference in rates of savings between countries can be put down to language.

Does having a future tense make you see the future differently? Just how important is language to perception?

Linguist Daniel Midgley

47: Spoke Differently They?

What was early human language like?

A pair of researchers think they’ve reconstructed early human syntax from as early as 50,000 years ago. But have they got it right? How can we know about languages that no longer exist?

Linguist …

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