A joke’s a joke, but is it still funny in translation? How does a comic have to adapt things for different language audiences? And what’s going on in Malaysia’s burgeoning comedy scene?
Multilingual writer and comedian Kuah Jenhan is in …
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Can an emoji be a word?
Oxford Dictionaries thinks so — they chose one as their Word of the Year. And this has language purists fuming. But what exactly is a word?
Linguist Daniel Midgley explains on this episode of …
Weird Al Yankovic’s new parody “Word Crimes” is chock-full of grammar advice — but is it good advice?
Or is it just a three-minute-long language peeve session? What should we take from the song, and what should best be left …
Is it octopuses or octopi? What about mongooses? Are they mongeese?
Sure, you can use plural –s, but do you know your way around the unusual plurals of English?
Have no fear — linguist Daniel …
The longest word in German is no more.
It was a 63-letter word to describe a law governing beef testing. But don’t worry; there are a lot of long German words to take its place. What allows German words to …
The National Spelling Bee was held in the US last week, and in a change that has shaken up the sport, contest hopefuls had to know definitions as well as spellings.
Why is English so difficult that simply spelling its …
There are some words we’ve been hearing around the place.
What exactly is a shemozzle, and why is Peter Costello talking about it? How do you pronounce carillon, and why is Perth’s “Carillon City” spelt with only one …
They’re reviled by spelling reformers, and loathed by English learners.
They’re silent letters. Why does English possess these orthographic curiosities? Do other languages put up with them? Are they useless leftover baggage, or could they be the quiet achievers that …
Letters are letters, but the Internet gives them a new existence.
Linguist Daniel Midgley looks at what’s happening to the e in email, examines the i in your iPad, and puts the x in sex. All on this …
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