This is an amusing and informative post about the linguistic history of words for breasts. Calling boobs “melons” is literally ancient language, lol. Here’s the…

thequantumwritings came up with this neat concept for Common as a language in fantasy settings. Usually we think of common as simply a convenient narrative…

Just because JRR Tolkien can do that, doesn’t mean you can. JRR Tolkien can do that. You are not JRR Tolkien though: Source: sandersstudies

This is a good point about universal translators in sci-fi: how do they know when to stop translation? These tweets by foone elaborate further: Source:…

There are so many commonly used phrases that we are only using part of. Here are some great examples of phrases we use that are…

James Chapman draws these cute illustrations of onomatopoeia and sounds in different languages! He’s made an entire series of super cute language based art of all…

This is a good point about people doing ancient translations in horror movies. *Translates old Arabic text.* *Somehow it rhymes perfectly in English.* This makes no…

shamansantics wrote this neat little story about how aliens can’t understand human tone and emphasis when they speak: Source: shamansantics

For today’s humans are weird content, Zort the alien learns about sign language! Zort has been studying human for years and finally gets to meet…

Fred Rogers, better known as Mr. Rogers, was an American tv host, producer, and writer who created and hosted the children’s television series “Mister Rogers’…