George Bernard Shaw once described the Americans and British as “two peoples separated by a common language,” underscoring that we are especially prone to misunderstandings when we think we are ...

Imagine that you’re flying Turkish Air. The beverage cart bumps down the aisle. A flight attendant holds up that little carafe and asks, kah-vay? You travel a lot. Now you’re flying Finnair. The ...

It must be a conspiracy – the way language tries to confuse us, that is. The plot thickens; the conspiracy gets worse. It turns out that there are look-alikes that are even trickier than false friends ...

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Aug. 27 -- WEDNESDAY, Aug. 26 (HealthDay News) -- Bilingual people are unable to completely switch off their second language, even when reading in their native language, new research suggests.

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Oceania is a fully refereed, A-rated journal of social and cultural anthropology. Its regional orientation is to peoples of ...