Have you ever wondered why some languages sound like they’re being spoken more quickly than others? Japanese sounds faster than German, and Spanish definitely sounds faster than English. So what’s the deal? One team of researchers set out to find the answer. This is what they found. by visually.  

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Do twins really have some sort of secret connection? It certainly seems possible after seeing this video of a two twin baby brothers. Sam and Ren, a pair of fraternal twins, seem to babble on endlessly, laughing almost non-stop about…who knows what? “These kids are right on the cusp of language,” says Stephen Camarata, professor of [...]

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If you’re like most people, you probably read people’s body language every day without even realizing it.  Whether you’re shrugging your shoulders as if to say, “I don’t know,” or rolling your eyes to say, “Oh my God!” Of course, if you’re the guy pictured above, you’re probably saying, “I really should have used some [...]

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It’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for. Here is just a sampling of the new words that have been included in the 2010 New Oxford American Dictionary. New Words BFF n. (pl. BFFs) informal a girl’s best friend: my BFF’s boyfriend is cheating on her. – ORIGIN 1996: from the initial letters of best [...]

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More here: OMGFacts 1. In Shakespeare’s time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes…when you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. That’s where the phrase, “good night, sleep tight” came from. 2. The term “the whole 9 yards” came from W.W.II fighter pilots in the Pacific. [...]

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It finally happened. The Global Language Monitor announced today that Web 2.0 has beaten Jai Ho, n00B and Slumdog as the millionth English word or phrase. It has officially now been added to the codex of the fourteen hundred-year-old English language. Web 2.0 is a technical term, of course, meaning the next generation of World [...]

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