Toujours plus court ! The world's smallest language has only 100 words — and you can say almost anything
In Chinese, the word computer translates directly as electric brain. In Icelandic, a compass is a direction-shower, and a microscope a small-watcher. In Lakota, horse is literally dog of wonder. These neologisms demonstrate the cumulative quality of language, in which we use the known to describe the unknown. “It is by metaphor that language grows,” writes the psychologist Julian Jaynes....
