The joke goes, “How do you keep an Italian from speaking? You tie up his hands.” While Italians are indeed very expressive with their hands when they speak, most human beings can’t go through a single conversation with peppering it with plenty of hand gestures. People talking on the phone, will use [...]
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Ye Ole Translation
From l33t speak to Greek and back again, how much is communication effectively lost in translation?
It’s always fun to learn a new language, but learning a new language as an adult can be as challenging as trying to acquire a US work visa as a foreigner. Many linguists suggest that if you’re trying to learn a new language, languages within your ethno-linguistic group will be easiest to acquire. There are [...]
