There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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The equivalents of the English saying "That's Greek to me" are "This appears to be Spanish" (German), "This is Chinese to me" (Dutch), "It's German to me" (Philippines), "It's Hebrew" (Finnish), "It's Chinese to me" (Hebrew), "Sounds like Mars language/These are chicken intestines" (China).
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There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”:
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
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When Washoe, the first chimp to use sign language, was told that her caretaker's baby had died, she signed "CRY."
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards.
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