You may never become a Time Lord — but least you can learn to write in their elegant, intricate language. There’s no “official” lexicon to the circular Gallifreyan script we’ve seen in Doctor Who , but Loren Sherman has a guide to writing in it. It looks cool, and it can be your own private code. Read more…
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Learn to write Gallifreyan in 9 simple steps
The sentences above are special. According to newly published research, they comprise words that have been passed down for millenia, from a language that all but disappeared toward the end of the last ice age. What remains of that tongue are words like the ones above – words that mean the same thing today, and sound almost exactly the same, as they did 15,000 years ago. Read more…
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Spoken in the ice age, these words might actually have made sense
If you’re ever beset by a strange and distinct feeling that you can’t quite name, you’re not alone. Just as the English language has pulled in loanwords like “schadenfreude” to name emotions with no English equivalent, there are a number of words other languages use to describe emotions still unnamed in English. Designer Pei-Ying Lin has charted a handful of these emotions , which are ready for your linguistic consideration. More »
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A Chart of Emotions that Have No Names in the English Language