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After 10 years of President Donald Trump dominating the national discourse, one effect is a coarsening of political language.
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Quebec's language watchdog has changed its tune on whether it's acceptable to use the word "go" to cheer on sports teams ...
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June is Aphasia Awareness month, and a man from Pulaski County is bringing awareness to aphasia, a language disorder, after ...
Adults and AI models fail to recognise messages with harmful intent expressed with Gen Alpha slang or memes, raising concerns about youngsters’ online safety ...
Some US presidents have made a valuable contribution to American English as we know it. One famous example is the Founding ...
Made an awkward blunder in a conversation? You might have just put your foot in your mouth. Learn more about the history and origins surrounding this commonly used phrase here.
She was—does a lot of research on language and emotion, and she was in Australia studying Aboriginal languages when she noticed that the words many of those languages used to exclaim their pain ...
This statement was originally published on pen-international.org on 24 October 2024. ‘The Chinese government’s latest effort to control online discourse by constraining the creative use of language ...
Figurative expressions are context, language and culture based. If one tries to translate an example from one language to another, it is almost impossible to make the correct deduction.