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Human communication

  • NewsThe English word news developed in the 14th century as a special use of the plural form of new. In Middle English, the equivalent word was similar to the…
  • GazeIn 1943, Jean-Paul Sartre published Being and Nothingness. Within its pages, he described a moment where one person looks at another.
  • LanguageThe word language derives from the Proto-Indo-European root for tongue or speech, passing through Latin and Old French before entering English.
  • WritingA clay tablet from the Sumerian city of Uruk, dated to the end of the 4th millennium BCE, marks the first known example of written language.