1+ week, 6+ day ago  (244+ words) A new tool drawing on billions of uses of more than 20, 000 words and diverse real-world texts claims to have found that human language is systematically biased, but not against things. It is instead biased toward safety and that has impacted…...

16+ hour, 27+ min ago  (939+ words) 'I could be the last surviving Wren linguist and this was the strangest part of my role' Daily Express Patricia Owtram is 103 today (June 18) and remains one of the most interesting, intelligent and remarkable people you could ever hope to…...

11+ hour, 24+ min ago  (386+ words) Readers reflect on Louis de Berni'res's dislike of imprecise and redundant speech Like Louis de Berni'res, I too have misosaskopeslexis (what a good word, which he defines as a hatred of pointless words). Various irritating uses of language on Radio…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago  (36+ words) On linguistic homelessness. I dream in one language, think in another, and write in a third. None of them feels completely like "...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago  (120+ words) to receive news by email Arabic Word of the Day Shami and Levantine Dialect Pharmacies During the Crusades to the Arab world, Europeans discovered that the Arabs had developed the first pharmacies. Will the Trump Administration Shift U. S. Policy in Favor…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago  (273+ words) When I first matched with my now-husband on a dating app, his profile said he was from Belgium. At the time, I assumed he spoke French. As our relationship progressed and things became more serious, I asked my future husband…...

4+ day, 34+ min ago  (457+ words) Speak a language your whole life and its grammatical rules become ingrained. That's why you might correctly guess that the present participle of the verb "absquatulate" is "absquatulating," even if you are completely unfamiliar with the word. But the rules…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago  (398+ words) Summary: A new study has fundamentally redrawn our understanding of the bilingual brain, proving that multilingual speakers do not possess separate grammatical rulebooks in their gray matter, but instead rely on a single, shared neural engine. The empirical tracking data…...

5+ day, 7+ hour ago  (453+ words) Kashmiri is not yet dead, but it is not entirely healthy. Children educated in Urdu and English, while a sophisticated language struggles for breath. The question is no longer whether Kashmiri can survive. The question is whether we can afford…...

6+ day, 26+ min ago  (38+ words) standardmedia. co. ke Man takes state to court to save dying mother tongue What kind of stories would you like to read? Pick your favourite topics below for a tailor made homepage just for you...