Any bilingual will tell you that there are concepts that are best articulated in a particular language. In fact, when bilingual friends or acquaintances fumble for the right word or expression, how many times have we not heard, or proposed ourselves, “Try your other language”. But words are just a small part of our knowledge. What about other forms of knowledge that we have stored in our memory?
Northwestern University researcher Viorica Marian has spent many years studying the link between language and memory. In one of her earlier studies… continued
Source: Psychology Today
You have finally finished writing your article. You’ve sweat over your choice of words and agonized about the best way to arrange them to effectively get your point across. You comb for errors, and by the time you publish you are absolutely certain that not a single typo survived. But, the first thing your readers notice isn’t your carefully crafted message, it’s the misspelled word in the fourth sentence. Typos suck…
