SlutWalk is hitting Perth this week to raise awareness of the tendency to blame the victims of sexual assault.
And the word slut is making even some participants uncomfortable. What’s behind the term? Where does it come from, and can …
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An economist has determined that the difference in rates of savings between countries can be put down to language.
Does having a future tense make you see the future differently? Just how important is language to perception?
Linguist Daniel Midgley…
Radioactive waste takes a long time to decay.
In the meantime, you have to warn people to stay away from it. But how do you make a warning sign that will still be understandable to people 10,000 years in the …
What was early human language like?
A pair of researchers think they’ve reconstructed early human syntax from as early as 50,000 years ago. But have they got it right? How can we know about languages that no longer exist?
Linguist …
Do you have an accent?
Of course you do; everybody does. And now there’s the Speech Accent Archive, an internet database that you can browse, containing sound data from hundreds of speakers of English from around the globe. What is …
While English is the major language of the Commonwealth, there are hundreds of other languages and dialects.
But many of these minority languages are under threat. What can we do to preserve the languages in our midst, and why should …
This week on Talk the Talk, we’re talking about spam.
Not the spicy ham product, but the wretched dreck that clogs your inbox. Why do we call it spam? How does your computer know if your email is spam? …
You say it many times a day, whether you notice it or not. It’s “um”.
Far from being just a conversation-filler, it can make you a better speaker, and may even help children learn new words.
Linguist Daniel Midgley will …
For 140 characters, Twitter can tell us a lot about ourselves.
By looking at masses of tweets, word-crunching software can tell when we’re feeling up or down, help us decide what stocks to buy or sell, and track the spread …
Are you a grammar grouch? Do you have language peeves? And if so, how can you recover?
Linguist Daniel Midgley talks the talk with Lane Greene, language blogger, journalist, and author of the new book You Are What You …
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