Waimea Bay takes its name from the Hawaiian word for "reddish-brown waters." hey tiffany! via Flickr under CC BY-NC 2.0 The Hawaiian language has no term for “virtual reality.” At least, it didn’t in ...

“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world,” observed philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein in 1922. We might ask, accordingly, how does language shape reality, arbitrating human experience of ...

Source: Andrea Piacquadio / Pexels During a conversation with a colleague the other day, my coworker made an observation that surprised me. He is a professor of French and has taught that language at ...

This is neither a rant against you or against my wife I just mean to explain how sprawling the concept of language is and how you can kind of 'prove' that things that aren't commonly thought of as ...