How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language has been abridged for online publication. The book is out on July ...

Despite seeming like a universal language – and sometimes they do function that way – emojis can be at once more vague, and more specific, than words. That’s because you can’t separate the meaning of ...

While I’ve never been greeted with “Welcome in,” I read with amusement your piece on its possible origins and widespread dislike (“The Two-Word Greeting Driving Shoppers Nuts,” Page One ...

'American Idol' winner Jamal Roberts speaks out about judge Carrie Underwood Mics Caught Umpire's Perfect Line to Mets Manager During Heated Ninth Inning Exchange Returned Salvadoran migrant ...

Google will unveil a new version of its Android design language at its upcoming Google I/O developer conference, according to an event schedule posted to its website, as well as an accidentally ...

Everyone has a different way of communicating their love. The love languages could be a helpful starting point on your way to understanding each other better.

Linguists think that the words that we use to express pain might tell us something about our shared biology and the commonality of language.

From “ouch” to “aïe” to “yakayi,” languages across the world exclaim pain using similar-sounding words, hinting at a common origin ...

On 11 October, China’s online regulator and state censor, announced a new ‘special action’ focused on the use of ‘non-standard and uncivilized language and writing’, as part of its latest campaign to ...

Just in time for Halloween 2024, Meta has unveiled Meta Spirit LM, the company’s first open-source multimodal language model capable of seamlessly integrating text and speech inputs and outputs ...