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Stories about: meanings

Ambiguity Makes Language More Efficient While it's intuitive to argue that language appeared so that we can communicate more efficiently, linguists are not convinced that this was indeed the main reason. Debates on this issue have been raging on for years, and now experts in the United States bring an interesting point of view to the table. Many expe... 19 January 2012 07:36 GMT How Language Changes Language is one of the things that constantly change, and not over the years, but several times in the course of an average life span. The engines behind these changes are the people, a researcher proposes, saying that the process through which language changes to reflect daily routines and actions is very similar to... 27 November 2009 14:01 GMT