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  • [Language fact 1] In the 1980s, deaf Nicaraguan children with no prior sign language (or any true language) exposure were brought together to a deaf school and started spontaneously making their own sign language, developing complexity and syntax. This gave linguists rare insight into the birth of human language.

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  • [Language fact 2] The first recorded instance of a man "giving no fu*ks" was George Tucker in 1790. Writing about his son's bookish tendencies, his poem says, "I'd not give a fu*k for all you've read".

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  • [Language fact 3] The 1931 Hollywood the English-language film “Dracula” was filmed by day, and the Spanish-language film “Drácula” was filmed using the same set by night. Director of Drácula based his shots on what he felt worked in the “day” film and critics praised Drácula far more than Dracula.

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  • [Language fact 4] The term "okay" is derived from "OK" and not the other way around.

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  • [Language fact 5] Yea and Nay don't mean exactly the same as Yes and No. They were for questions posed in the positive whereas yes and no were for questions in the negative. So answering "yes" to "don't you like it?" always meant you did like it. This removes ambiguity.

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  • [Language fact 6] "The Chaos" is a poem written by Gerard Nolst Trenité to show differences in pronunciation of English words which are spelled similarly. The poem only rhymes if you know how to pronounce them correctly.

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  • [Language fact 7] "Cryptophasia" is a phenomenon where twins make up a language which they only speak with each other. Twin languages often consist of onomatopoeia, and new words twins create by simplifying the words used by adults around them. Up to 50% of young twins may develop their own twin language.

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  • [Language fact 8] When Pope Benedict XVI announced his resignation in Latin, the Vatican reporter who broke the story was the only one in the room who could actually understand the announcement.

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  • [Language fact 9] The term “lawn mullet” means having a neatly manicured front yard and an unmowed mess in the back.

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  • [Language fact 10] The idiom "drinking the Kool-Aid" comes from the 1978 Jonestown mass suicide, where over 900 people (almost 300 of which were children) deliberately or forcibly drank a powdered soft drink flavoring agent (Flavor Aid) mixed with cyanide.

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