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Category: Languages

Modern Sailing and Seaspeak

Controlled Natural Languages Seaspeak was created in 1985 to standardize how sailors and others on naval vessels communicated with each other. When a ship from an English-speaking location such as the United States would like to ask for assistance from a passing ship from, for instance, Brazil, the language barrier can quickly become a problem. Seaspeak allows these ships [...]

How Luxury Brands Use Language to Appeal to Consumers

The psychology of marketing has been a fascinating area of study for over a century. One crucial aspect of marketing psychology (particularly when looking at luxury brands) is the use of language. Detecting the unique vocabulary choices and tone of a luxury advertising campaign or sales pitch can be meticulous if you’re unfamiliar with these techniques. However, once you’ve been [...]

2025-03-20T19:01:43-04:00March 20th, 2025|Communication, Culture, Languages|

Kitchen Slang: People and Places

Kitchen staff need to be able to communicate not just about who is doing what but also how the clientele are behaving. Because language adapts to its speakers’ needs, this has resulted in a vocabulary tailored toward obscuring meaning from those not familiar with the culinary environment. In this way, restaurant workers can convey valuable information without stirring up [...]

2025-02-20T12:59:06-05:00February 19th, 2025|Communication, Languages, Uncategorized|

History’s Weirdest Kitchen Terms

The kitchen is a place of community and contentment—so it’s no surprise that throughout history, it’s also been a haven for tomfoolery. While much of today’s kitchen slang has arisen as a response to the stressful working conditions back of house and the potential problems guests cause in the front, some remnants of this comical side of the culinary landscape [...]

2025-02-24T19:27:56-05:00February 5th, 2025|Communication, Education, Languages|

When Love Is Too Much: Love-Bombing

Social media intro: Have you ever watched a man sweep a woman off her feet, taking her completely by surprise as he proclaims that he “can’t help himself”? Or perhaps you’ve heard a girl tell her boyfriend that her life would be meaningless without him by her side. While these utterances can be signs of affection and love, they can [...]

2025-02-25T17:56:48-05:00January 29th, 2025|Communication, Education, Languages|

From Hahaha to Jijiji – How Expressions of Laughter Vary Around The World

What does laughter sound like? If your answer is that it goes, “Hahaha,” then you’re very likely an English speaker (oh the horror). But why would that be the case? Doesn’t laughter sound the same across the world? Sure, in a certain way it does. Human beings always know when another person is laughing, regardless of their cultural or [...]

2025-01-15T16:20:02-05:00January 15th, 2025|Communication, Culture, Languages|

Scripts and Survival: How Hangul is Being Used to Preserve Cia-Cia

Writing systems, or scripts, are tools that humans developed to document and transmit ideas that came to us using language. As it turns out, the scripts that we’ve developed are quite versatile and can be used to transcribe a variety of languages. Consider, conveniently, the example of this article that you’re reading. It’s written in the Latin script, which [...]

The Language of Cults: Persuasion and Control

When people think of cults, it is often common to wonder how the participants ended up buying into the message. From the outside, the flaws of the cult may seem obvious or downright unbelievable. However, there is an often overlooked reason these groups are so compelling: language. Cult leaders who know how to leverage the spoken and written word [...]

2025-03-27T17:39:32-04:00January 3rd, 2025|Communication, Education, Languages|

Swear Words: Origins and Global Use

Languages come in all shapes and sizes around the world—but if there’s one thing that languages share, it’s swearing. While the curse words (and phrases) of choice will vary based on geographic location, dialect, and more, world languages have a lot more in common than you might think when it comes to swearing. Swears originate with the universal experience [...]

2024-12-26T16:55:13-05:00December 26th, 2024|Communication, Education, Languages|

Seven Everyday Sayings That Come from the Bible

The influence of the Bible and Christianity in modern culture is difficult to overstate, even for non-religious people. From the beloved Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris to Cristo Redentor towering over Rio de Janeiro, the Western world is steeped in Christian imagery. It can be argued that none of these cultural monuments would have survived into the 21st century if [...]

2024-12-11T16:52:55-05:00December 11th, 2024|Communication, Education, Languages|
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