Prashant Pandit’s documentary film, The Word and the Teacher, shows that, despite the passing of over a century, Ferdinand Kittel remains enshrined in the hearts of those who love Kannada ...

Every generation crafts its own lexicon, a secret handshake of words and phrases that defines an era. From the "groovy" 60s to the "rad" 80s and the "da bomb" 90s, youth culture has always pushed ...

Dagnabit, I just love cursing. It relieves stress and feels good. Polite society has considered the use of vulgar language to be associated with low intellect, but studies are showing the opposite.

Once upon a time, the English language was full of stories with “blossoms,” “rivers,” and “moss.” But these words are disappearing from our vocabularies — and along with them, our connection to the ...

This Valentine's Day, consider asking your partner, "What's your love language?" The 5 Love Languages®—gift giving, quality time, words of affirmation, acts of service, and physical touch—were ...

Analysis shows obscure and barely used choices, drawn from online slang, do not stand the test of time ...

Thus far, even AI companies have had trouble coming up with tools that can reliably detect when a piece of writing was generated using a large language model. Now, a group of researchers has ...

AI isn’t just impacting how we write — it’s changing how we speak and interact with others. And there’s only more to come. AI isn’t just impacting how we write — it’s changing how we speak and ...

In their classic 1998 textbook on cognitive neuroscience, Michael Gazzaniga, Richard Ivry, and George Mangun made a sobering observation: there was no clear mapping between how we process language and ...