Is it the Persian Gulf, or the Arabian Gulf? It depends on who you ask.
But Google’s map makers are finding that it’s hard to stay impartial to political conflict when putting a name on a map can cause international …
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Can baboons read?
Not exactly, but in a recent experiment, they could tell the difference between real words and fake words. What does this tell us about animals, and what could it do for us?
Linguist Daniel Midgley spells it …
Passive Voice Day was held last week.
The linguistic phenomenon known as passive voice is hated by editors, checked by computers, and used by all of us. But it’s not well understood, and often misidentified in the press. How can …
Languages are disappearing.
In the next hundred years, half the world’s languages may be gone. But is this really a problem? What do we lose when we lose a language? And can the process be halted?
We catch up with …
Big Tobacco is challenging government legislation that would put plain packaging on cigarette packets.
They claim that removing a logo is similar to expropriating their property. Is a logo property? Why are cigarette makers fighting this so hard? What does …
New evidence shows that humans used fire one million years ago — a lot earlier than we thought.
This tells us about our early ancestors, but it also tells us about language and how it started. What does fire have …
What would life be like without numbers?
The Pirahã people of the Amazon don’t have them in their language, and have difficulty learning them. What does this tell us about the human mind?
Linguist Caleb Everett spent some time among …
Do you use question intonation, even when you’re not asking a question?
You may be an uptalker. Are you communicating something when you use it, or are you just driving people crazy?
Linguist Daniel Midgley takes it up a notch …
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 …
Language technology tends to focus on people who speak. But what about for people who sign?
A Scottish team has announced a new app to convert signs into text, but that’s just one part of the picture.
Linguist Daniel Midgley…
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