Learning a foreign language is seriously tough, it takes patience, dedication and courage and anyone who has been able to do it deserves respect. Can you imagine then, conversing with others in their language, and instead of appreciating your efforts they decide to mock your accent instead? 24

It started off with a premise that, to be fair, deserves discussion and scrutiny. A Tumblr user, who refers to herself as ‘Feminist Chewbacca’ wanted to discover the root causes of patriarchal domination in society, and turned to the English language to investigate the inherent sexism it allegedly

By Richard K. Noots John Koenig has been inventing words for complex emotions for a couple years now. His creation, called the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, is filled with words that have been created for very specific instances. Now the real question is: Are these words real? Well, any linguist