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2026-06-10 @ 12.08.07 ∈ In English

Gleam-glum effect reveals emotional word cues in children as young as five
Overwhelmingly, study participants paired the made-up words with "ee" sounds with the pictures showing happy animals, and the made-up words with "uh" sounds with the pictures showing unhappy animals.
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2026-05-14 @ 17.39.46 ∈ Suomeksi

Lasten omia yhdyssanoja
Lapset muodostavat uudissanoja täyttämään vielä kehittyvän sanavarastonsa aukkoja. Uusiin ilmauksiin he ottavat ennakkoluulottomasti ja luovasti mallia tutusta sanastosta. Yksi uudissanatyyppi ovat yhdyssanat, joista suurin osa on lasten kielessä substantiiveja.
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2026-04-19 @ 16.27.17 ∈ Suomeksi

TIL

Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz – Wikipedia
Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz oli Saksan Mecklenburg-Etu-Pommerissa vuosina 1999–2013 voimassa ollut laki naudanlihan tuoteselosteiden valvomisvelvollisuudesta. Sen nimike, 63-kirjaiminen yhdyssana, oli saksan kielen pisin sana.
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2025-10-23 @ 10.16.49 ∈ In English

Rubenerd: Bring back the letter thorn (þ)
You don’t realise how much English depends on þat sound until you see þ littered all over þe place.
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2025-07-19 @ 9.58.27 ∈ In English

Ancient DNA solves mystery of Hungarian, Finnish language family’s origins
The study finds the ancestors of present-day Uralic speakers living about 4,500 years ago in northeastern Siberia, within an area now known as Yakutia.
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2024-12-13 @ 16.55.05 ∈ In English

Scrabble star wins Spanish world title – despite not speaking Spanish
Nigel Richards has also been champion in English and – after memorising dictionary in nine weeks – French
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2024-09-16 @ 19.27.59 ∈ In English

(2015 vintage)

Guy annoys girlfriend with puns at Ikea
We moved in together recently so had to make the unavoidable trip to IKEA; I figured out how to get through there as quickly as possible.
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2024-09-14 @ 13.22.30 ∈ In English

(From 2023; Medium.com, eww)

AI and the American Smile
Why do you smile the way you do? A silly question, of course, since it’s only “natural” to smile the way you do, isn’t it? It’s common sense. How else would someone smile? As a person who was not born in the U.S., who immigrated here from the former Soviet Union, as I did, this question is not so simple.
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2024-06-23 @ 16.09.10 ∈ In English

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How Cults Use Language to Control | Otherwords
If there’s one thing cult leaders do, it’s talk. A LOT. Language is an integral part of how cults keep their members bonded, isolated and obedient.