European Research Council,
European Day of languages stresses the importance continuous of learning of language to increase intercultural understanding…
Today We Learned,
TIL that ‘Huh?’ is a universal word expressing misunderstanding, found in languages across the globe including: Icelandic…
Nodos Ele - Emilio Quintana Pareja,
Recordemos el trabajo por el que Francisco Torreira obtuvo el Premio IgNobel en 2015, un hito de la lingüística. http://journals.
The Magical Crazy Science,
إيج نوبل 2015 #Nobel_2017 #Crazy_Science
The Magical Crazy Science,
ايج نوبل 2015 :D #Crazy_Science #Nobel_2016
Revista Entrepalavras,
Pesquisa mostra que 'Huh' (o nosso 'hã?' quando não entendemos algo) é universal: foi encontrada uma palavra similar em forma e…
Aberdeen Political Economy Group,
Something distracting and interesting to start the week with: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.00…
U.N.A.M. Sin prejuicios.,
LOS PREMIOS IG NOBEL: -Premios a Ciencia Absurda- >> DOC YEYO
U.N.A.M. Sin prejuicios.,
LOS PREMIOS IG NOBEL: -Premios a Ciencia Absurda- >> DOC YEYO
DOC YEYO,
VIERNES DE HUMOR !!! Este viernes les platicaré de los Ig Nobel: - Son los premios a estudios científicos inusuales, una…
GEMx - Global Education in Medicine Exchange,
No matter where you travel for a GEMx medical elective exchange, you’ll know at least one word. A recent study found that the…
LeRoy Eide,
Merritt Ruhlen in his book "The Origin of Language: Tracing the Evolution of the Mother Tongue" (an extended argument for the…
Hacker News Bot,
Is “Huh?” a Universal Word? (plosone.org) www.plosone.org
HACKERS,
New article from Hacker News www.plosone.org
Steve Messenger,
Nurudha Waelah,
Mohammad Makram,
Gordon Charlton,
Huh?
Ariezona Pajajaran,
Ryan Amparo,
"A more plausible mechanism for the cross-linguistic similarity of huh? is convergent cultural evolution. This proposal sees huh?
Scott Austin,
"We investigate it in naturally occurring conversations in ten languages and present evidence and arguments ... that Huh? is…
Centre de Sciences Cognitives (Université Neuchâtel),
Is "huh" the universal lexeme?
Byron Cain,
Huh ? we all evolved the same way!
Lisl Zlitni,
Huh? http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0078273
John LeDuc Jr,
Wazzat you say?
Pat Murtagh,
No need for translation ? Huh ?
Mike Harreld,
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0078273 My immediate reaction to this is: Are we simply…
Michael Hogue,
"Huh?" Turns out that 'sound' is one of the very few universal 'words' in human languages - a meaning given to the question of "W…
Binh An Vu Van,
L'interjection "Huh?" serait universel. Il se retrouverait dans pratiquement toutes les langues avec toujours à peu près la même…
Department of Philosophy at King's College London,
Is “Huh?” a Universal Word?
Big Science, Small Science,
"Huh?" is the universal word, linguists have discovered. A study found the term is used in the same way across languages even…
Rico Li,
So there you have it.. The next time someone thinks you are being rude for expressing your confusion by saying, "huh," tell…
Marcel Kappes,
Existe uma palavra conhecida por todos os humanos e em todas as línguas: "huh?" http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.13…
Klara Sjo,
You only need one word: Hæ? (Thank you, Vera)
Bob Cromwell,
Huh. http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0078273#s1
Jiří Zlatuška,
"Huh" jako univerzální slovo, kterému bez ohledu na jazyk rozumíme všichni stejně. (Zdá se, že z hlediska evoluční lingvistiky…
Pat Pat,
Patrick Reinke,
Huh? They got funding for that?! http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0078273
Janne Länsipuro,
"conversational infrastructure can drive the convergent cultural evolution of linguistic items." Häh?
Jouko Suhonen,
‘HUH?’– is a universal word used as a ‘repair initiator’ when one has not clearly heard what someone just said. 'HUH' is a…
Yasir Sajjad Husain,
"Conversational infrastructure and the convergent evolution of linguistic items." If you read that and went "Huh?", that's…
Timo Häyrynen,
Häh!? Finnish makes it 32 languages - but not included in this meager study.
Pat Narcisi,
This could be the reason for an almost universal switch lately to WTF! or maybe not.
Cultural Anthropology,
"Huh?" is the universal word, linguists have discovered. A study found the term is used in the same way across languages even…
Minh Tran,
learn 10 languages with one word..
Lane McCullough,
I love stuff like this. Language is one of the most interesting human inventions. Ranks right up there with bacon.
Roger Chong-Yi Lee,
Hahahaha. We have discovered the universal word and it is "Huh?"
Richard Massicotte,
Des chercheurs de l’Institut Max Planck de psycholinguistique de Nimègue aux Pays-Bas, ont découvert que le petit mot "hein?…
Armands Lodziņš-Leimanis,
A word like Huh?–used as a repair initiator when, for example, one has not clearly heard what someone just said– is found in…
Lynne Flynn,
Finally, something that unites us worldwide.... Huh?
Kuba Ichy Snout Bieniuk,
"From a systematic comparison of 10 spoken languages from 5 continents we find evidence suggesting that a word like ‘Huh?’–used…
Kam Deo,
Now, this is an interesting paper
Digital Digging,
Is “Huh?” a Universal Word? Conversational Infrastructure and the Convergent Evolution of Linguistic Items - http://www.plosone.o…
Joe Heavner,
I officially speak a word in every language.
Svenn Jakobsen,
"From a systematic comparison of 10 spoken languages from 5 continents we find evidence suggesting that a word like ‘Huh?’–used…
Iacopo Papalini,
La globalizzazione del 'puppa'
Terry Trent,
I use "huh?" when I have heard perfectly well what the person has said, and find that it makes no earthly sense to me at all. I…
Eric J. Hull,
I just love stuff like this.
Jim Naureckas,
Why does every known language include a word similar to "huh"? And is "huh" really a word, anyway? I'm not sure I buy the…
Barney Dannelke,
But not, "WTF?"
Deb Bledsoe,
Peggy Renwick - Neal S is very interested in language (Read Snow Crash for a good example)
Tracy Brown,
I really love the idea of a "repair initiator."
DeAnna Dailey,
Someday when I am too old to run around any more and I have nothing better to do than go back to school, I'm totally going to…
Adam Rappaport,
This sort of analysis gets me hot...
Mike Glodo,
"From a systematic comparison of 10 spoken languages from 5 continents we find evidence suggesting that a word like ‘Huh?’–used…
Paul Bohm,
"From a systematic comparison of 10 spoken languages from 5 continents we find evidence suggesting that a word like ‘Huh?’–used…
Assaf K. Dekel,
"From a systematic comparison of 10 spoken languages from 5 continents we find evidence suggesting that a word like ‘Huh?’–used…
Neal Stephenson,
"From a systematic comparison of 10 spoken languages from 5 continents we find evidence suggesting that a word like ‘Huh?’–used…
Matt Lai,
People often ask me what the fugg linguistics is. Here's a study of "Huh?" to show it's not just learning obscure vocabulary…
Lisa Carver,
Good read.
Zi Teng Wang,
"Huh?" is a universal word. Across the entire world, no matter what language spoken, no matter what language family it's from…
Tiago Dos Reis Rodrigues,
Como e porque "ã" é uma palavra universal. Gabriel Piazentin
Language Resource Center at Adrian College,
Things that make you go Huh... OK. I'm probably dating myself with that C+C Music Factory reference.
Lazar Razal,
a?
Seth Lindberg,
Appropriately, this made me think, "Huh." http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0078273
Rozwellia Cartereii,
'Huh?' an interrogative sound used to prompt another to repeat themselves seems to be universal to all human languages.
Brodie Chree,
"Huh" is the universal word, say linguists. "Huh" is not innate (other primates don't say it), but the circumstances of its use …
Rick Ermilchsau,
The study of huh?
Luke Thompson,
Neil and Talia, I think Will is on to something.
Ryan McDougall,
This, along with "OK". http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0078273
Baron John Carlos Cruz,
The universal word: "huh".
Patrick Harrington,
We are all one! ... Huh?
Erc Obnoxiousindiemiddlename Shnidr,
This is pretty cool: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0078273
Matt O'Neill,
"Huh" is the universal word, say linguists. "Huh" is not innate (other primates don't say it), but the circumstances of its use …
Jesse Manley,
"Huh" appears to transcend language barriers.
CHLL 3920 粵語研究與應用（2013）,
以下的報導來自今天的《東方》。如果對這個問題有興趣，不妨看看《PLoS ONE》原本的文章（點擊以下的連結）。 ----------------------------------- 「吓」字易發音易理解 多國通用 【本報綜合報道】人們通常在希望他人重…
Travis Emert,
Hmm... love linguistics :3
Matthew Gompert,
this is really cool
Andy Meisner,
"Huh" is a universal word?
SUNY New Paltz Philosophy Club,
Seems as though we're all unified by our confusion -- "Huh?" may be one of the only universal words.
Christofer Clemente,
"Huh" is the universal word, say linguists. "Huh" is not innate (other primates don't say it), but the circumstances of its use …
Naveen Udawella,
"Huh" is the universal word, say linguists. "Huh" is not innate (other primates don't say it), but the circumstances of its use …
David B. Ramirez, writer,
I just used this word. http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0078273
Jim Ricker,
Interesting. Is “Huh?” a Universal Word? Conversational Infrastructure and the Convergent Evolution of Linguistic Items
Chris Lin,
有哪一個“字”是跨五大洲說出來人們都聽得懂的？最近一篇由語言學家投稿在Plos One期刊推舉這一個字: ”Huh”. (Huh? 真有這種研究啊？) Are there words that are universally understood…
Peter Rohloff,
Interesting article by some great researchers, one of whom I had the pleasure of meeting a few years back.