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Yoda's green color is very well-established in the Star Wars franchise at this point, but there was a moment there when the ...

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The conventional grammar wisdom is that turning verbs into nouns — or what is termed “nominalization” in linguistics — is bad for the health of one's prose. The evidence is painfully clear. Take this ...

To first-time learners of the English language, what could easily be its most baffling aspect is its use of the so-called causatives. English uses this strange grammatical structure to denote ...

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This controversial theory says the universe is subject to an ultimate, higher-order law that we can’t comprehend.

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Unlike other "languages," sign language—be it American or otherwise—is a visual language, and therefore, can take a long time to master. Here are some other things you might not know about sign ...

For those who insist that politics and religion do not mix, I point out that the Pope says: “We must never forget that religion, especially the Christian religion, cannot be limited to the private ...