“What’s your pronoun?” Good question.
Many people would like to be more supportive of trans and non-binary people. In general, it’s helpful to disclose pronouns, but there’s a little more to this story.
Daniel and Ben are talking to researcher …
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Artificial intelligence is everywhere, and that freaks some people out. But the real problem is that AIs may not be smart enough.
Whether you’re concerned about the future of human/computer interaction, or you just want a fun description of machine …
Communities need language. But a lot of the documentation is locked up in the archives.
So now linguists are teaming up with community researchers to demystify linguistic research, so that this work can be taken to their communities to help …
We hear what we expect to hear.
That’s a problem in court, where covert audio recordings are often unclear. Who decides what goes into the transcript that lawyers, judges, and juries will see?
We’re talking to Dr Helen Fraser about …
Indigenous languages matter. They’re part of Australia’s cultural heritage, and they’re a way for Aboriginal people to communicate, and connect.
This includes Indigenous signed languages. In the push to recognise minority languages, Indigenous signed languages deserve some attention of their …
The mail keeps coming, and we keep answering.
- Is English really a dialect of Chinese?
- Why do people say “uncomfortableness”, when we already have “discomfort”?
- Are “ankh” and “anchor” related?
- How does learning traditional languages help communities?
- Is there a
When homosexuality was illegal, a secret language brought people together.
In 1960s England, Polari was a creative blend of Romani, Italian, rhyming slang, and backslang, used among the LGBT community. It could be used to communicate, or to identify someone …
If you’re at a park in New York City, you may see someone at a table offering free grammar advice.
That person is writer Ellen Jovin, and she dispenses wisdom from her Grammar Table. What motivates her to do …
Poetry isn’t (just) enjoyable, it can be useful.
It can help us with language learning and memorisation, and help us in historical linguistics. And even computers are getting into poetry generation, probably because they want to learn the secret of …
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