When we read, it's very easy for us to tell individual words apart: In written language, spaces are used to separate words from one another. But this is not the case with spoken language – speech is a ...

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“My uncle is a lawyer, but my aunt has a spoon.” You know those language textbook dialogues? Where people seem to talk more about silverware (“the fork, the knife”) and what color things are more than ...

About 100 years ago a philosopher named Ludwig Wittgenstein noodled the idea of a private language for each individual person, but surmised that only its creator would be able to understand it. He ...