A new book reveals how swear words came about and why, over time, what we find offensive has changed. NY Post composite In most people, language is generated on the left side of the brain — the half ...

Did you know English didn’t really start out as English? A huge chunk of the language actually comes from elsewhere. In fact, ...

The answer to this seemingly innocuous question that comes up again and again involves the Jewish Enlightenment, Jewish diaspora nationalism, and a little-known protest in front of the Forverts ...

A singular German word overflowing with length and precision can flummox an English speaker: from its number of letters to its complex meaning. In the age of COVID-19, more than 1,200 words in German ...

Kibbizter, kvetcher, nudnick, nebbish, nudzh, meshugener, alter kocker, pisher, plosher, platke-macher These ten ...

Turning to my girlfriend, Iara, I said out loud, ‘Ich liebe dich’. I didn’t even know the English translation – I just repeated it to her and asked, ‘Babe, what does this mean?’ She looked at me, her ...