A new campaign to get rid of homophobic language in Aussie Rules football is drawing attention around the world.
And other groups from soccer to hockey are picking up the ball in an effort to end anti-gay slurs. How are …
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Words change slowly over time, but we can see how they look mostly the same, even in different languages.
Now a team of researchers is claiming that some “ultraconservative words” have maintained their similarity across languages for 15,000 years. Is …
Star Wars is getting a new translation into the Navajo language of the Western USA.
But it’s not just for the Navajo nerds out there; it may help people keep using it. And that’s a good thing because it’s one …
Is your all-important essay being graded by a human, or a computer?
Automated essay scoring is now a reality, but not everyone likes the idea of an unthinking robot evaluating their essays. How do these programs work? And can you …
Downton Abbey has enchanted millions of television viewers with the goings-on of the fictional Crawley family of the 1910s and 20s.
But some of the language they use is decidedly post-post-Edwardian, and language fans are having fun turning up words …
Legendary linguist John Gumperz passed away recently, and leaves behind a body of work that changed linguistic study as we know it.
Gumperz was a pioneer of the burgeoning field of interactional sociolinguistics, and it explains how we understand each …
Are there any words you really hate?
Word aversion may not be an actual condition, but there’s no shortage of words that make people’s toes curl. What are the most hated words in English? Do speakers of other languages feel …
Why do we guffaw or weep, chortle or bawl?
Laughter and tears don’t just show emotion; they’re forms of communication. And these signs of joy or grief may have developed along with our capacity for empathy and a …
There’s a new way to learn a language on the Internet for free.
It’s called Duolingo. You learn by translating sentences. And as you learn, you and millions of other users will participate in translating documents on the web. It’s …
There’s a lot of language out there on the Internet.
But how does the volume of language on Twitter, web pages, and the rest of the Internet compare with the amount of face-to-face conversation?
Computational linguist Robert Munro has taken …
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