Karishma brings you seven things you could really do without, but are better off knowing.
Her warning: You may not like what you find. And you may not believe what is in fact, fact.
But share them with your children. Step into someone else’s shoes. Imagine.
“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.” — Nelson Mandela
There are no words in the English language that rhyme with the words orange, purple, silver or month.
Every human being is born with the capacity to make every sound of every language in the world. But with time we filter out the sounds we don’t need for our primary language and focus on the ones we do.
A ‘palindrome’ is a word or a phrase that can be spelt the exact same way from both ends. For example: racecar or ‘A Santa at NASA’.
HIPPOPOTOMONSTROSESQUIPPEDALIOPHOBIA is the fear of long words.
In 1977 when NASA launched the ‘Voyager 1 & 2’ spacecrafts, they put on board golden discs that included greetings in 55 of the world’s most commonly understood languages. These are currently traveling through space!
The longest word in the English language that can be typed on the keyboard using only the right hand is ‘lollipop’, and using only the left hand is ‘stewardesses’.
The population of Europe, which is approximately 740 million, speaks only 234 languages. On the other hand, the island of Papua New Guinea, which hosts less than 5.5 million people, speaks in about 830 different languages.
