Linguists Find Proof of Sweeping Language Pattern Once Deemed a ‘Hoax’

Linguists Find Proof of Sweeping Language Pattern Once Deemed a ‘Hoax’ Inuit languages really do have many words for snow, linguists found—and other languages have conceptual specialties, too, potentially revealing what a culture values By Cody Cottier edited by Allison Parshall In 1884 the anthropologist Franz Boas returned from Baffin Island with a discovery that…

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Can Donald Trump really put a tariff on films?

After slamming everything from clothing to avocados with tariffs, now President Donald Trump has taken aim at films. “The Movie Industry in America is DYING a very fast death,” Trump proclaimed on Truth Social last week, while floating a 100 percent tariff on movies “produced in Foreign Lands.” The news stirred up confusion across Hollywood,…

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