From ‘shiok’ to ‘narcocorrido’ to ‘sweary’, the OED’s new words are a linguistic smorgasbord. They include, for the first time, entries from Singapore and Hong Kong English - and an expression dating back to 1723.
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Language, culture and brain development all contribute to ‘childhood amnesia’.
Going forward, perhaps we ought to cut office patois some slack – it greases the wheels of business, after all.
Could understanding other cultures’ concepts of joy and happiness help us to reshape our own?
A clever proces similar to Google’s image search is helping to preserve some of the world’s 7,000 languages that are at risk of disappearing.
Worried that a shortage of language speakers could be a security risk, the army now gives soldiers cash incentives to learn them.
Funding cuts could finally decimate one of Britain’s oldest surviving languages.
What happens when the face is no longer the primary means of expression?
While cats – with their steely demeanor – have a reputation of being hard to read, humans seem intent on figuring out what they’re thinking and feeling.
Human communication is complex, rich in nuances and frequently includes non-verbal signs. That’s a challenge if you want an intelligent machine to be part of the conversation.
Many of the most commonly used election terms have a long linguistic history, stretching from ancient Rome to modern-day America and Australia.
The EU may claim it is “united in diversity” but the reality is very different.
Yiddish was at one time the international language of Ashkenazic Jews, but it’s exact origin has always been somewhat unclear, until now.
We all know about the ‘jobs and growth’, but there was also ‘tax’ and various forms of ‘new’ – read innovation – in this year’s federal budget.
If you read a translation of a book, have you read the book? Can language ever really tell you what someone else is thinking? Jhumpa Lahiri navigates these tricky waters in her memoir, In Other Words.
As a political speaker, either you pick your key phrases or they get picked for you.
The psychological complexity of Shakespeare’s characters has rendered them timeless. Today, we see The Bard’s influence in shows like ‘Breaking Bad’ and ‘True Detective.’
Quenya, Sindarin, Klingon and Dothraki – there’s an art to making up languages.
Shakespeare’s use of dialect is a key argument used by those who stand by the traditional author. But these so-called “Warwickshire dialect” words are nothing of the sort.
Five perspectives on how our language is evolving – and where it might end up.
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