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Topic: Language

Fact Ancient Greek texts have almost no word for blue Homer described a wine-dark sea and honey-green sheep. 1 min read Fact A language was born in front of researchers in the 1980s Deaf Nicaraguan children were brought together, given no sign language, and invented one. 1 min read Fact Basque is related to no other language on Earth Surrounded by Romance languages, descended from none of them. 1 min read Fact One Amazonian language appears to have no exact numbers Roughly one, roughly two, many. And speakers struggle with exact matching tasks above three. 1 min read Fact OK began as a joke about bad spelling From a fad for comic abbreviations in 1830s Boston newspapers. 1 min read Fact Writing was probably invented for accounting The oldest substantial texts are receipts, not poetry. 1 min read