Ouch! Ah! Aïe! The words we use when we stub our toe or receive a pinch may point to a common way to express pain across languages. Associate news editor Allison Parshall explores what linguistic commonalities in expressions of pain and joy might mean for our shared biology. Plus, Parshall and host Rachel Feltman chat about onomatopoeias, the “bouba-kiki” effect and linguistic news you may have missed in 2024.Recommended reading:<a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/expressions-of-pain-may-have-a-common-origin/">Ouch! Linguists Find Universal Language for Pain</a> <a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-our-thoughts-shape-the-way-spoken-words-evolve/">How Our Thoughts Shape the Way Spoken Words Evolve</a> <a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/my-synesthesia-transforms-speech-into-text-i-see-in-my-head/">My Synesthesia Transforms Speech into Text I ‘See’ in My Head</a> <a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/8-fascinating-things-we-learned-about-language-in-2024/">Eight, Ocho, Acht Most Fascinating Language Discoveries of 2024</a> E-mail us at <a href="mailto:sciencequickly@sciam.com">sciencequickly@sciam.com</a> if you have any questions, comments or ideas for stories we should cover!Discover something new every day: <a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/getsciam/?utm_source=promotion&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=may24-marketing2024_subscribetext&utm_term=LP_subscribe_v1_s1_podcast">subscribe</a> to Scientific American and <a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/account/email-preferences/?utm_source=promotion&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=may24-marketing2024_signuptext&utm_term=LP_signup_v1_s1_podcast">sign up</a> for Today in Science, our daily newsletter. Science Quickly is produced by Rachel Feltman, Fonda Mwangi, Kelso Harper, Madison Goldberg and Jeff DelViscio. This episode was hosted by Rachel Feltman with guest Allison Parshall. Our show is edited by Fonda Mwangi with fact-checking by Emily Makowski, Shayna Posses and Aaron Shattuck. The theme music was composed by Dominic Smith. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

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