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Miller: When you were, I don’t know, 10, 12, 18, were you annoyed by those voices, or even then, did you recognize that the guard rails or words they were using were actually forms of support ...

In this overview, we'll explore the origins, structure, and distinctive features of the Romanian language, gaining insights ...

His consonants are thumped, the diphthongs clear, and the tone modulated. He emphasises words and phrases ("honest, brrootally honest"), and sprinkles the narrative with ahas and umms. Occasionally ...

Linguist Gareth Roberts joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about the etymologies of English words. How did the first languages first form? Was there once a single common ...

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