“The more we look into social structures, the more many of us realize we don't fit into them," says So Mayer, author of the new book Bad Language, "So each phrase or set of vocabulary is another piece of that dismantlement.” We discuss finding vocabulary for oneself, coming out as a speech act, growing up under Section 28, busting through oppression and shame, and joyous listening.

The celebration took place inside the school’s gym, where more than 130 staff members and 60 honorary chefs served a donated Thanksgiving meal to students.

OTTAWA, ON ― An alarming new study out of the University of Ottawa suggests that years of recommendations to learn a new language in order to stave off cognitive decline may in fact have the opposite effect, as bilingual people tend to forget double the amount of words as they age.

Blein ny Gaelgey will see Manx "heard, seen and shared more than ever before", organisers say.

AI systems still make surprisingly simple mistakes that persist even after extensive training. They also lack the ability to think logically or to truly ‘understand’ nested input. For Michael Hahn, Professor of Computational Linguistics at Saarland University, the problem lies in the architecture itself. According to Hahn, the fundamental design of large language models needs to change.

The University of Nottingham has suspended entry for new students on modern language courses.

When a politician addresses issues such as Islamophobia, immigration or housing in multiple languages, they’re engaging with a wider world of shared experiences that migration has woven together.

We return to our series looking at the hardest words ever found on the SAT by exploring the letter "G."

Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

"Parts of our traditions kind of fall along the way if they’re not kept up," says Veronica Sanchez-Saenz, a teacher at Irving Dual Language Academy.

Breton, Corsican, Basque: A new report assesses the state of regional language teaching nationwide

A new Science paper challenges the idea that language stems from a single evolutionary root. Instead, it proposes that our ability to communicate evolved through the interaction of biology and culture, and involves multiple capacities, each with different evolutionary histories. The framework unites discoveries across disciplines to explain how the ability to learn to speak, develop grammar, and share meaning converged to create complex communication.

Despite the vast diversity of human languages, specific grammatical patterns appear again and again. A new study reveals that around a third of the long-proposed "linguistic universals"—patterns thought ...

In celebration of Thanksgiving and all the food that comes with it, we’ll take an etymological trip around the dinner plate.

"There’s so much you can learn from linguistics when you apply it to the business of naming" Deborah Ball has been working in naming, branding, content creation, marketing, and communications for more than 10 years in the UK and the US. Her special focus has been brand naming. She has a Master’s in Linguistics from

For many children in Spain, switching between languages is as natural as breathing. In classrooms and playgrounds from Madrid to Málaga, Spanish, English and often a third language mix effortlessly, making bilingualism less a goal and more a way of life.

"I’ve transitioned to ‘haha’ instead of ‘lol’ because I read that 'lol' is millennial-coded."

AI-inspired word joins ‘biohacking’, ‘Henry’ and ‘broligarchy’ on tech-heavy 2025 list

Tennessee students and teachers push back against a proposal to reduce world language graduation requirement, emphasizing its importance in education.

A model partnership between archaeologists and the Kuikuro people has helped rewrite the history of early Amazonian societies