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Below you will find an alphabetical listing of slang words used in the "Jazz Age" (generally taken to mean the years of the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression).
The Internet Guide to Jazz Age Slang
William Shakespeare - The First Folio
A comprehensive description of the First Folio The "First Folio" is of major importance to William Shakespeare as it is the first collected edition of Shakespeare's plays without which there would be no William Shakespeare.
A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.
Amusing, but kind of weird quotes...
The Flappers’ Dictionary: It’s The Cat’s Pajamas
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Carl Honoré ( In Praise of Slow ) says Canada's Baffin Island Inuit "use the same word—'uvatiarru'—to mean both 'in the distant past' and 'in the distant future.' Time, in such cultures, is always coming as well as going."
What concepts do not exist in the English language?
Bouba/kiki effect
This picture is used as a test to demonstrate that people may not attach sounds to shapes arbitrarily: American college undergraduates and Tamil speakers in India called the shape on the left "kiki" and the one on the right "bouba". The bouba/kiki effect is a non-arbitrary mapping between speech sounds and the visual shape of objects. This effect was first observed by German-American psychologist Wolfgang Köhler in 1929. [ 1 ] In psychological experiments, first conducted on the island of Tenerife (in which the primary language is Spanish ), Köhler showed forms similar to those shown at the right and asked participants which shape was called "takete" and which was called "baluba" ("maluma" in the 1947 version).
Subliminal Messages - Hidden Subliminal Image Samples - Do you get the hidden subliminal message?
This is an image that ran in the phone book until they found out that it is a little unusual. Subliminal messages are in images every day.
Another 25 Words you Don’t Know
Following on from our first list of words you don’t know, we present another 25.
