Tip of the Tongue

I have just come back from Israeli Translators Conference in Jerusalem on February 13-15. The question that may come into mind is what exact...

A tongue twisters is a logical (more or less) series of words that test a speaker’s ability to pronounce properly.   Ideally, a tongue twist...

Every language has code words.   These literally mean one thing, but have a specific context understood to a person who understands the cult...

A preposition is a short word describing the physical or lexical relation between words, such as in , on , or about , to name a few.   Every...

Words can express their meaning not only by an arbitrary process of defining them, but also in the sounds and facial expressions they produc...

The food we eat is not only concrete, but also abstract, not referring to the state of its ripeness.   Since fruit and vegetables are such a...

The verb to have seems like a such basic thing.   Every language must have one, of course?   Actually, while the Latin-based languages do, ...