When Texting, One Little Thing Makes a Big Difference
The difference between sincere and insincere may be just one little punctuation mark.
The difference between sincere and insincere may be just one little punctuation mark.
How is language evolving on the internet? In this series on internet linguistics, Gretchen McCulloch breaks down the latest innovations in online communication.
All words had to start somewhere—but sometimes, after much searching and analyzing, no satisfying origin explanation can be found.
The inventor of Magnetic Poetry was thrust into his life's work by one well-timed sneeze.
Marie Wilcox hopes that the project will keep the Wukchumni language alive.
Without a new generation of Speakers, the Native American language could die out in a few generations.
Few franchises have had the cultural impact of the various 'Star Trek' television series and movies, and nowhere is that more evident than in the snippets of dialogue that have become a part of the American vernacular.
Unlike other "languages," sign language—be it American or otherwise—is a visual language, and therefore, can take a long time to master.
So on top of influences of Aboriginal, English, Irish, and German, the accent may have a few pints to thank.
These scripts remain mysterious.
Nutella engaged a panel of dialect scholars to put together a guide to 135 characteristic expressions from 16 regions of Italy.
Some common words that usually don’t have a whiff of tommyrot are also in the BS lexicon.
How is language evolving on the internet? In this series on internet linguistics, Gretchen McCulloch breaks down the latest innovations in online communication.
What we say today shapes the vocabulary of tomorrow.
How is language evolving on the internet? In this series on internet linguistics, Gretchen McCulloch breaks down the latest innovations in online communication.
Before writers ever thought to separate their words with spaces or punctuate their sentences with periods, documents were routinely arranged into visible, helpful paragraphs.
How is language evolving on the internet? In this series on internet linguistics, Gretchen McCulloch breaks down the latest innovations in online communication.
These mistakes show that little kids know a lot more about the rules than we think.
Located in the brothers' longtime home of Kassel, the museum celebrates them as pioneers of German language studies.
A new study finds that babies can distinguish between sounds better if they can move their tongue.
Remember when there was all that internet racket about the taco emoji? The trending hashtag, the t-shirts, the campaigns—it was a global initiative, and it worked. And we were happy, for awhile ... at least until we realized that there was no eyeroll emoj
7. During his presidency, Herbert Hoover and his wife Lou would hold their private conversations in Mandarin to prevent their staff from listening in.
How is language evolving on the internet? In this series on internet linguistics, Gretchen McCulloch breaks down the latest innovations in online communication.
Many of these slang terms for death are still familiar, but quite a few are less known—and still delightful.