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Do Your Morals Depend On Language? Study Poses The Trolley Problem In Different Languages, With Wildly Different ResultsA train moving along train tracks towards the camera.

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Do Your Morals Depend On Language? Study Poses The Trolley Problem In Different Languages, With Wildly Different ResultsA train moving along train tracks towards the camera.
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Do Your Morals Depend On Language? Study Poses The Trolley Problem In Different Languages, With Wildly Different Results

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The Guugu Yimithirr Language Is Notable For Not Having A "Left" Or "Right"photograph of a gravelly road with bushes on either side, the blue sea off the coast of Elim, Far North Queensland, can be seen in the distance

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The Guugu Yimithirr Language Is Notable For Not Having A "Left" Or "Right"photograph of a gravelly road with bushes on either side, the blue sea off the coast of Elim, Far North Queensland, can be seen in the distance
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The Guugu Yimithirr Language Is Notable For Not Having A "Left" Or "Right"

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The Voynich Manuscript Appears To Follow Zipf's Law. Could It Be A Real Language?A page of the Voynich Manuscript.

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The Voynich Manuscript Appears To Follow Zipf's Law. Could It Be A Real Language?A page of the Voynich Manuscript.
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The Voynich Manuscript Appears To Follow Zipf's Law. Could It Be A Real Language?

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Strange Link Between Environment And Vocabulary Revealed By Study Of 616 LanguagesGreenland, covered in snow.

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Strange Link Between Environment And Vocabulary Revealed By Study Of 616 LanguagesGreenland, covered in snow.
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Strange Link Between Environment And Vocabulary Revealed By Study Of 616 Languages

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Language Divides Of Europe Linked To Ancient Migrations Over Past 5,200 YearsEuropean lights seen by astronaut André Kuipers from ISS. Portugal is to the right of the image, while Paris is the glowing light on the left.

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Language Divides Of Europe Linked To Ancient Migrations Over Past 5,200 YearsEuropean lights seen by astronaut André Kuipers from ISS. Portugal is to the right of the image, while Paris is the glowing light on the left.
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Language Divides Of Europe Linked To Ancient Migrations Over Past 5,200 Years

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Almost All Languages Appear To Follow Zipf's Law, And We Have No Idea WhyA woman spewing out letters.

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Almost All Languages Appear To Follow Zipf's Law, And We Have No Idea WhyA woman spewing out letters.
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Almost All Languages Appear To Follow Zipf's Law, And We Have No Idea Why

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The Most Universally Understood Word In The World Appears In So Many LanguagesA globe on top of a pile of books.

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The Most Universally Understood Word In The World Appears In So Many LanguagesA globe on top of a pile of books.
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The Most Universally Understood Word In The World Appears In So Many Languages

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How Many Languages Can One Person Learn In A Lifetime?Multilingual signs hanging from the roof inside the central market, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Asia

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How Many Languages Can One Person Learn In A Lifetime?Multilingual signs hanging from the roof inside the central market, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Asia
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How Many Languages Can One Person Learn In A Lifetime?

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Communication Across Different Languages Is Now As Easy As Putting In An EarbudAn image of two men sitting on two leather seats. Both of them are wearing the time kettle earbuds. In the background there is a brick wall and a large green houseplant.

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Communication Across Different Languages Is Now As Easy As Putting In An EarbudAn image of two men sitting on two leather seats. Both of them are wearing the time kettle earbuds. In the background there is a brick wall and a large green houseplant.
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Communication Across Different Languages Is Now As Easy As Putting In An Earbud

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There Used To Be 27 Letters In The Alphabet, And People Are Only Just Finding OutThe alphabet spelled in fridge magnets, going from A to T.

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There Used To Be 27 Letters In The Alphabet, And People Are Only Just Finding OutThe alphabet spelled in fridge magnets, going from A to T.
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There Used To Be 27 Letters In The Alphabet, And People Are Only Just Finding Out

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People Are Just Now Learning There's A Word For The Day After TomorrowAn opened dictionary.

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People Are Just Now Learning There's A Word For The Day After TomorrowAn opened dictionary.
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People Are Just Now Learning There's A Word For The Day After Tomorrow

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The Longest Word In English? It'll Take You Hours To ReadBlack tiles from the Scrabble boardgame showing many different letters of the Alphabet.

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The Longest Word In English? It'll Take You Hours To ReadBlack tiles from the Scrabble boardgame showing many different letters of the Alphabet.
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The Longest Word In English? It'll Take You Hours To Read

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What Is The Fastest Language?A man shouting and talking against the backdrop of a black old wall.

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What Is The Fastest Language?A man shouting and talking against the backdrop of a black old wall.
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What Is The Fastest Language?

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"Pain Of Itself": The Meaning Behind The "Lorem Ipsum" Placeholder TextLorem Ipsum text on printed on paper selective focus

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"Pain Of Itself": The Meaning Behind The "Lorem Ipsum" Placeholder TextLorem Ipsum text on printed on paper selective focus
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"Pain Of Itself": The Meaning Behind The "Lorem Ipsum" Placeholder Text

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Pedants, The Feeling Is Real. Hearing Bad Grammar Can Physically Stress You Outyoung woman looking stressed, hands on the side of her head

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Pedants, The Feeling Is Real. Hearing Bad Grammar Can Physically Stress You Out

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