Ever heard that Arabic has 10 million words? That English has a million? French has 80,000, or that the Alaskan Inuits have no word for love but 16 for snow? Why is that? Words are only words because we all mutually agree that they're words. Stare long enough and the semantic saturation will kick inRead More| Frank M Taylor
A key part of becoming a skilled reader is understanding how words are built — that is, how small parts of words that carry meaning come together to form words. For example, the word unhappy is made up of two parts: un- and happy, and the word unhappiness includes both of these parts as well as a third part, -ness. These meaningful parts are called morphemes, and each one contributes in a specific way to a word’s meaning.Morphemes are important because knowing how they work helps us un...| rastlelab
