Other languages have good ideas too, you know.
Have you noticed something cool about another language, and wished English did that? Is there any feature of another language that you wish English had?
Daniel and Hedvig are engaging in a …
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The International Day of Signed Languages is upon us.
If we could look at all the signed languages in the world, what would they have in common? What misconceptions do hearing people have? And what is International Sign?
It’s all on this …
People are biased. And computers learn from people.
That means our data is biased, and in a big data world, that can cause big problems.
But researchers are finding ways to turn down the bias in a dataset. We’re talking …
What do you call your family members? No, not like that.
We’re talking about kinship terms. How does your language handle family relations? Do you call your grandmothers on your mom and dad’s side the same thing? What’s a second …
Language is tough. Unless you’re a human! If you’re a computer, it’s another story.
Fortunately, one professor is taking on the task of helping computational researchers understand how semantics informs human communication.
We’re having a chat with Emily Bender of …
It’s time once again to dig into our overflowing mailbag.
- What’s the difference between a hill, a mountain, and a mount?
- Why do we seem to add a negative suffix to positive words, and not the other
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…‘Haha and hehe denote laughter in both Latin and English, and they sound like laughing when you say them.’ So says my favourite part of the grammar textbook by Ælfric (d. c 1010), Old English author +
Would you think differently if you spoke a different language? And does the structure of your language have any perceptible effect on your behaviour?
We’re revisiting the Sapir Whorf Hypothesis. Is this an idea that’s coming in from the cold? …
The Talk the Talk team is taking their show to the Disrupted Festival, and they’re chatting with internet influencer Ketan Joshi about data privacy, science advocacy, and changing minds. Plus their usual antics, games, and the dreaded Words of the …
The Vocal Fries is a podcast all about linguistic discrimination. We think we’re pretty cool on Talk the Talk because we sometimes go there, but they live there ALL THE TIME. So we had to sit down and have a …
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