David Malan / Getty Images November 20, 2023 How can you define a ‘drug’? Nobody really knows Sam Baron, Australian Catholic University Everybody thinks they know what drugs are, but a clear definition is surprisingly elusive.
Unsplash/United Nations November 29, 2020 ‘Rona’, ‘iso’, ‘quazza’ — words of the year speak to our Australian take on COVID Roland Sussex, The University of Queensland The Macquarie Dictionary has chosen “doomscrolling” and “rona” as its words of the year. The Australian National Dictionary chose “iso”. Is “quazza” too far?
Shutterstock/Yurii Zymovin November 3, 2020 Hashtags may not be words, grammatically speaking, but they help spread a message Andreea S. Calude, University of Waikato and David Trye, University of Waikato Hashtags are infiltrating language well beyond their original use on Twitter — and linguists are struggling to define their role.