I love the movie Arrival but it perpetuates one of the biggest myths in linguistics: that language influences how we think about time.
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Can animals talk to their owners with buttons?
Many animals on TikTok are using audio buttons to communicate with their owners! But is this language?
Numbers are hard
If Old English shows vestiges of a base-12 counting system, then when did “hundred” mean 120 instead of 144?