Do languages help mold the way we think? A controversial idea from the 1930s is getting a second look. Skip to main content. Scientific American. March 25, 2002. 7 min read. A Way with Words.

Barbara Kruger: A Way With Words She created some of the most memorable works of her era. Now the activist-artist is back with two immersive shows, at MoMA and David Zwirner Gallery.

A way with words. In my day and age, some millennia ago, learning spellings of words was the done thing, and time was spent in going over lists of these until one was word perfect.

A Way with Words: Language and Human Nature In English, we can babble, bark, bleat and bray. But we can also ask, cite, pose, preach and tell.

A way with words: Lexical wizard Henry Hitchings on the crazy history of our language 'Margarine' comes from the Persian word for pearl, Edmund Spenser coined 'blatant' and many of our naval terms ...

BEIJING – The Chinese usually greet each other on the street by saying, “Ni chi le ma?” or “Have you eaten?” a polite phrase based on cuisine’s central role in t… ...

A way with words By . Sean Daly. Published Dec. 31, 2012, 5:00 a.m. ET. FACE OFF: Britney Spears was a bust on “X Factor,” if you ask us.