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Is there an art to dubbing movies and TV? Yes, and Germans have mastered it.

October 13, 2017

It turns out that there are plenty of reasons why dubbing became a thing in Germany while other European countries took the subtitling route. Inevitably perhaps, the story includes Nazis, Communists and…

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Grandmothers have the best curse words

July 14, 2017

two highlights: we hold swear words in a different part of the brain than the rest of language. We often don’t think of the literal meaning of common swear words…

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Dialect versus language — what’s the big deal?

July 5, 2017

There are many rubrics that people cite as indicators of a dialect versus a language. Take mutual intelligibility. If two varieties of speech are mutually intelligible, surely they must be…

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