extravidual:

I started studying linguistics because I find the study of language most intriguing. Here is some interesting trivia about language to show you why:

(1) Grammar is actually a much more complex phenomenon than anything that could ever be taught in school, but nevertheless every human being masters the grammar of some language.
(2) There are languages that don’t have words for right and left but use words for cardinal direction (like north and west) instead.
(3) Some aspects of language appear to be innate.
(4) There are more than 6000 languages spoken in the world, but 90% of the population speaks only 10% of them.
(5) Turkish, among other languages, has a special verb tense used for gossip and hearsay.
(6) Most sentences that you hear and utter are novel; they have never been uttered before.
(7) No language is intrinsically easier or harder to learn than any other.
(8) Some languages structure sentences by putting the object first and the subject last.
(9) There are communities, such as the Al-Sayyid Bedouin tribe, in which all members of the community can use a signed language.
(10) There is nothing inherent about most words that gives them their meaning: any group of speech sounds could have any meaning.
(11) There are specific structures in your brain designed to process language.
(12) The language you speak affects whether or not you distinguish between certain sounds.
(13) Rules like ‘don’t split infinitives’ were invented by people in the eighteenth century who believed that English should be more like Latin.
(14) The same words in the same order don’t always mean the same thing.
(15) No language is more or less logical than any other.
(16) Certain sounds that you could make with your mouth are never used as speech sounds in any language.