Saturday 26th September is ‘European Day of Languages’. To mark the occasion we thought it would be fun to share some facts and trivia concerning languages:
- There are between 6,000 and 7,000 languages in the world, spoken by 7 billion people divided into189 independent states.
- The word ‘like’ can be used as a noun, verb, adverb, adjective, preposition, particle, conjunction, hedge, interjection and quotative.
- Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltters in a wrod are; the olny iprmoatnt fatcor is taht the frist and lsat ltteres be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Or…..According to a research at Cambridge University, it doesn’t matter in what order letters in a word are written;. the only important factor is the the first and last letters be in the right place. The rest can be a total mess and you can still read it without a problem. This is because the human mind does not read every letter by itself but the word as a whole.
(Source: edl.ecml.at)