Tagged: Linguistics

Anyone else tired of hearing dumb sayings?

1902 Barber Dime
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If you read on the Internet, you find certain phrases used way past a healthy lifespan. Today the phrase that is irritating me is “turn on a dime”.

Ok, let’s think about this for a minute. What can really turn on a dime? No car, vehicle or anything else that I know can turn on a dime. I saw a lawnmower once that seemed to rotate on its inner wheel, but that was a lot larger than a dime. I think the only thing that could turn on a dime is a drunk ant. Are you with me?

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Sobs and Growls Come Across In Any Language LiveScience – StumbleUpon

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Sobs and Growls Come Across In Any Language LiveScience – StumbleUpon. Interesting. Some communication always seems to be understood. I wrote a response to that in the comments.

Interesting that language is so rich isn’t it? We really communicate in many ways don’t we? ​http://chimac.net/2011/04/15/languages-​more-diverse-in-africa/

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Languages more diverse in Africa

A composed satellite photograph of Africa.
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human-language-spread-african-origin from cosmosmagazine.com – StumbleUpon. This isn’t surprising. Past evidence showed that Mitochondrial Eve was from Africa. Isn’t it interesting? English being such a dominate language is less rich in sounds than older languages that may have died out.

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