Sign language is the language that uses many different forms of non-verbal communication. Lip patterns, body language, and specific hand gestures all play key roles in the language of signing. Anyone can learn sign language fairly easily, and it is quite useful for discarding the barrier between deaf people and people who can hear. It [...]

Body Language is a beautiful thing that exists between all animals, especially humans. We constantly display movements and signals that tell when we are sad, happy, or feeling romantic. Body language is sometimes difficult to interpret, because we rely more on words than our body’s natural instinct. Humans are also able to easily manipulate their [...]

Ever since privacy became an issue for those with sensitive writing materials and even spoken language, people have been creating secret coded languages to help disguise and confuse those who do not know how to decode the messages. In time, many of these secret codes became more complex and allowed for people to communicate in [...]

There is only one difference between an iPod touch and an iPhone: You cannot make calls from an iPod touch. There is a way you can adapt your iPod touch to make calls without the extra expense and call packages involved with iPhone. It is fairly simple but requires a few extra components. First you [...]

In the early days of the telephone there weren’t many options—you were either home to take a call, or not. Then came answering machines, caller ID and the concept of screening. The advent of the cell phone took that concept to bold new heights. With land line phones there was no real way of knowing [...]

There was a time not too long ago when doctors wrote all of their prescriptions in Latin. If you wanted to be a pharmacist you had to be in continuing medical education to be able to read these Latin prescriptions. If you were a Roman Catholic you were required to learn Latin because all masses [...]

Anyone that has watched, or still does watch, the short comedy films of the Three Stooges is very familiar with pig Latin. The Stooges used pig Latin all the time and what they did was take the consonant from the beginning of the word, put it at the end of the word, and the stick [...]

Online translators have been around for a very long time and it is only recently that they have been accurate enough to be considered worthwhile and useful. Of course like anything on the internet there are free translators and pay translators and the ones you have to pay for are usually more accurate than the [...]

While most languages evolve and grow over time, some have managed to remain more economic than others in their word count. It is interesting to see what some of the major languages have to offer in the way of word count and how that word count is affected by constant changes in the language.

English is [...]