We use this expression regularly, but why is it that something like this is said when we want to express the suspicion we feel towards something or someone?
This is how someone's follower or admirer or something enthusiast is called - opera, golf, the new gastronomy, poetry - and comes from the English fan, short for fanatic, that is, fanatic.
Parkinson's disease and other pathologies related to the brain could be detected early with simple tests that evaluate the relationship between brain activity, understanding and expression of sentences related to body movements.
This has just been demonstrated by a new Catalan study on the process of language acquisition and development in babies. These are the first results that show how and at what age the coordination patterns between gestures and speech are acquired, two keys to the communicative beginning of humans.
Researchers at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) have determined that the sound emanating from our lips leaves an acoustic trace that the brain is able to interpret. This has been the revealing conclusion of this study recently published in the journal Science.
A person who speaks a language regularly will use an average of 30,000 words. How do we manage to learn them, associate them and manage to communicate with others? A recent study has shown that language learning depends on the connection between regions of the left hemisphere of the brain.
The verb 'tweet', as used in the microblogging social network Twitter, has just been accepted by the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), considered the most scholarly and comprehensive dictionary in the English language. The new edition of the OED, which was released last Friday after its quarterly renewal, defines 'tweet' as "posting a message on the social network Twitter" or also "using Twitter regularly."
A new study published in the journal PLOS ONE reveals that there is a link between the geographical altitude of a place and the way its inhabitants speak. Specifically, populations that live in higher regions tend to speak languages in which ejection consonants predominate, that is, they occur when a sudden opening of the glottis expels previously accumulated air. There are ejection consonants in 20% of the world's languages, including Zulu.
Danni Büchner is invited to Sam Dylan's Halloween party. But the "Goodbye Germany" emigrant has no desire for many other party guests. And find clear words.
