GRAMMAR CRIMES DIVISION

There are over 7,000 languages alive today — humanity’s greatest group project.

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Linguists commonly estimate 7,000+ living languages, depending on how dialect vs language is classified. A large share are spoken by small communities, which is why many are endangered despite the big total number.

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The word “nice” originally meant “ignorant.” Which explains why it sometimes feels like an insult.The first pun was declared a crime in 1200 BC. The punishment was more puns.The word “serendipity” was created to romanticize being lost.The letter “E” is the most common because it’s attention-seeking.Hindi and Urdu are mutually intelligible but use different scripts — siblings who dress differently.Languages like Turkish and Finnish are agglutinative, using suffixes to form words — linguistic LEGO sets.See all Grammar Crimes Division facts →

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