A couple of them are frauds, a couple are just silly. A couple are very famous, like esperanto and klingon. One was a language JRR Tolkien created. A couple are philosophic in origin, like the idea that to better express themselves, women need more emotional words with subtle shades in difference. It's interesting! Read about them here.

Most of them are hard to translate because you need the cultural context you don't get unless you were born and raised in it.

HAZ CLIK AQUI, es muy interestante y con aleman!

There are many many languages in the world, and the more obscure indigenous languages die each year as the generation that speak them pass away. The people at National Georgraphic see that as a very bad thing, and I can see some of their points.

Why it's bad:-Language lost ( Read more... )

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Here Really fascinating. I think I speak general American.

Fascinating article!Languages and words convey concepts, subtle shades of meaning and inference that go way farther than the bare letters you see on a page. On top of meaning, you have sounds of words, syntax in sentences, tense, and real-life application of words in context. Man ( Read more... )

In many, if not all languages, "I love you" is an important thing to say to another.

I love you, te quiero, j'taime, suki da, eu te amo, ich liebe dich, wo ai ni (?), and sarangheo. Here are more.

Was?! Europe ohne Deutchland?

HierIt's interesting to think about. It's also interesting how the names of the bordering countries are the same, like Leipzig (German) to Lipsik (Polish). Germany has been where a lot of history happened. Martin Luther began the Protestant Reformation there. It used to be the Prussian empire too. Charlemagne lived in ( Read more... )