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Changes to medical terminology in Latin may affect how anatomists not trained in the language understand and communicate information.
Humans aren’t the only animals that have names for each other − and studying animals that use names can teach researchers more about how human names evolved.
By 43AD, when southern Britain became a Roman colony under emperor Claudius, the island was populated by speakers of several Celtic languages.
Terms like ‘woke’ and ‘emotional labour’ have lost their original meaning and there’s an issue with that.
The two human species had many similarities but their communication would have been different.
Spatial representations of time are not universal between different cultures and languages.
The Book of Job and ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’ both make fun of preachy know-it-alls and resist conventions of their genres.
Both politicians are exploiting some tried and true rhetorical and psychological tactics.
Boasting about centering your transformative systems change paradigm means you’re doing it wrong. But fixes are available.
Europa Clipper will contain a plaque that celebrates humanity’s relationship with water and a decades-old tradition of searching for life outside Earth.
Spent nuclear fuel remains dangerous for so long that languages can disappear and humanity’s very existence cannot be guaranteed. So how do we communicate information about repositories into the future?
A new study suggests that talking speed is a more important indicator of brain health than difficulty finding words.
Critics have said the government’s efforts to revitalize Indigenous languages are colonial and do not engage with Indigenous Peoples on an equal footing.
Although not a true sign language, the use of sign in Dune can still teach us a lesson about the value of sign language.
For Australians, it’s a love story, so baby just say “yeah-nah”.
Bilingual education can improve learning outcomes but it’s important to consider local context.
‘Year’ and ‘time’ are the two most frequent nouns in British English.
Words have power, and what vocabulary you have at your disposal to describe your relationships with other people can shape what directions those relationships can take.
Turns out ‘A’ didn’t have to be the first letter in the alphabet, nor ‘Z’ the last.
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