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Brilliant Errors in the System
Art + Stories
Experiences

Brilliant Errors in the System

The Oulipians would be delighted if they knew how easily they could be mistaken for Olympians. Controlled mistakes were one of the many elements that allowed them to experience creative freedom. In literature, errors are usually associated with spelling mistakes or misprints. From my own experience as an editor, I will never forget a poem […]
Maria Karpińska
The Language of the Gods
World + People
The Other School

The Language of the Gods

It is one of the world’s oldest languages and belongs to the Indo-European family, meaning that Sanskrit is still alive and well today—at home and abroad.
Agnieszka Rostkowska
The Happy Minimalists
Art + Stories
Experiences

The Happy Minimalists

The Pirahã people of the Amazon River basin live in the present. They also speak a unique language, which sparked a linguistic war with the likes of Noam Chomsky.
Maciej Świetlik
What Do You Really Believe?
Art + Stories
Experiences

What Do You Really Believe?

Do we really believe the views we express? Are we always trying to establish the truth when we argue, or might there be other motives at work?
Keith Frankish
More Than a Thousand Words
World + People
The Other School

More Than a Thousand Words

Isotype – the set of pictorial symbols developed by Otto and Marie Neurath – was an egalitarian project, aimed at developing a universal language for communicating social-scientific data.
Andrzej Kula
Script Hunting
World + People
The Other School

Script Hunting

Neurolinguist Tomasz Bąk talks about the letters and symbols of various world alphabets, as well as how brain diseases can affect language.
Jan Pelczar
Oh, To Be a Jargonaut!
Art + Stories
Experiences, Fiction

Oh, To Be a Jargonaut!

The game of Ouscrapo is at once fun, in the spirit of cooperation, and full of the limitless poetic potential of language.
Maciej Świetlik
Language That Brings Freedom
Art + Stories
Experiences

Language That Brings Freedom

The writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o truly understood the power of language – not only as a British colonial tool, but also as his own means of critiquing the corrupt post-colonial elites of Kenya.
Agata Kasprolewicz
Chatty Nature
World + People
Nature, Science

Chatty Nature

From mewing to singing, the animal world is home to all sorts of communication methods. But can we really refer to these as language?
Mikołaj Golachowski