Why do monolinguals tell more puns?
After I moved to Norway I stopped telling puns so much. Maybe I know why.…
What's the longest word in sign language?
What's the longest "word" in sign language. Interesting question. And difficult to answer. I'll try.…
Why do we love gifs so much?
I find myself gif-ing more and more recently. And as a linguist, I am cursed to have to have a meta conversation about it.…
Which signs get borrowed between signed languages?
Many signs look the same because their iconic motivations are the same. In these cases, it is extremely unlikely that one sign language borrowed from another.…
Is 'bracus' a word?
In Norwegian, lyst is frequent in daily usage, like in the expression Jeg har lyst til å ha X, which is used like English would say ‘I’d like X’. “Well that sounds just like ‘lust’ to me,” I say to myself. The sound and meaning was close enough that I stopped struggling to remember the meaning.…