Researchers assumed that speakers of other languages describe color the same way as English speakers just because their words matched up with color samples, ignoring subtle linguistic differences.

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English is an incredibly versatile and dynamic language that has evolved over centuries, absorbing and incorporating words from a vast array of other languages. This adaptability has allowed ...

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What’s been less well explored is which sounds don’t wind up in curses—which ones soften the sound of a word so that it can’t pack the angry, cathartic power that common curse words do ...

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