<rss version="0.91"><channel><title>Whistled Languages - Guaranteed To Be Very Interesting Or Your Upvote Back : RSS 0.91</title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/</link><description></description><language>en-us</language><item><title>Whistled Languages - Guaranteed To Be Very Interesting Or Your Upvote Back : RSS 0.91</title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/</link><description></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whistled Languages - Guaranteed To Be Very Interesting Or Your Upvote Back]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/world/l/51620/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Some cultures use a whistled language to communicate. This means that speech is emulated in whistling, which can cover much larger distances (typically 1 &#8211; 2 km but up to 5 km). Link points to examples and the <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistled_language" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">wikipedia</a> page is incredibly fascinating and points to even more examples of people speaking in whistles.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientists look to apes for language origin clues]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/18567/1/</link><description><![CDATA[In research published on Monday, scientists seeking clues to the origins of human language analyzed the way two types of apes genetically closely related to people -- chimpanzees and bonobos -- use such hand and limb gestures to communicate.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Norwegian is the easiest language for English speakers to learn]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/world/l/72281/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Norwegian (here I'm talking about bokm&#229;l, the most often-used variety of Norwegian) is a language spoken by about 5 million people in Norway, and is extremely similar to the languages Swedish and Danish.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Young Street Seller Sells in 13 Languages]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/29634/1/</link><description><![CDATA[He's not fluent I'm sure, but this kid's grasp of 13 languages is amazing.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not Just a Pantomime]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/41948/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Throughout the world, and dating back to antiquity, deaf people have communicated using their hands and faces. Signed languages are still often regarded as inferior to speech and are perceived as relying on mimicry or pantomime. Most linguists now accept that sign languages have all of the grammatical and expressive sophistication of oral languages. Not all linguists have seen the light, though.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neanderthals may have had language skills]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/38961/1/</link><description><![CDATA[FOXP2, to date the only gene known to play a role in speech and language, has now been found by scientists to be identical in Neanderthals and Humans.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[How totally paralyzed people communicate]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/31770/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Some people with locked-in-syndrome can communicate by blinking or moving their eyes.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have you ever met a baling? How about  a baffona?]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/39465/1/</link><description><![CDATA[English language is quite large, but there are somethings that English just doesn't have a word for, such as someone who is excited by eating garlic, or how about the act of taking lice from a person's head and squashing it between one's teeth. <br/>These and other words are in a new book, <i>Toujours Tingo</i>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[English language campaigners blast public signs]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/35550/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Campaigners for the English language on Thursday attacked a growing tendency for &quot;obvious&quot; public information posters, such as a police sign urging people: &quot;Don't Commit Crime.&quot;]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plants Communicate to Warn Against Danger]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/37930/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Plants chatter amongst themselves to spread information, a lot like humans and other animals, new research suggests.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Another dead language]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/world/l/52487/1/</link><description><![CDATA[maybe its not dead, it says some people still speak it. in my opinion it's an unborn language<br/>*it was intended as a world language, FAIL*]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA['Babelfish' to translate alien tongues could be built]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/58937/1/</link><description><![CDATA[If we ever make contact with intelligent aliens, we should be able to build a universal translator to communicate with them, according to a linguist and anthropologist in the US.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obama Clarifies Comments Over Foreign Languages]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/68480/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Obama merely commented about the benefits of Americans learning a second language. A few people took issue with his comments, perhaps they misunderstood or twisted his words. He clarified his comments to show he wasn't some sort of secret anti-english person.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn A Foreign Language For Free]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/40981/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Mango is offering free language courses on French, German, Italian, Greek, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Brazilian Portuguese and even Pig Latin<br/> Spanish and Polish speakers can learn English]]></description></item></channel></rss>