The Walloon government will mobilise €10 billion to boost the economy, one of the key measures of which will be to promote the learning of [...]
If you want an obituary in the New York Times, there is one sure-fire way: coin a famous word. People have found their way into [...]
If you frequently Google language-related questions, whether out of interest or need, you’ve probably seen an advertisement for Grammarly, an automated grammar-checker. In ubiquitous YouTube [...]
It can be hard sometimes, when speaking, to remember all of the grammatical rules that guide us when we're writing. When is it right to [...]
Language is endlessly variable. Each of us can come up with an infinite number of sentences in our native language, and we're able to do [...]
Backed by research and personal anecdotes, Spanish professor Anna Babel reveals the intricate relationship between language and culture, showing how social categories and underlying biases [...]
The people of Flanders have elected the word ‘knuffelcontact’ as their Word of the Year. ‘Knuffelcontact’ means hug buddy or cuddle contact in English and has [...]
Dans son célèbre roman "1984", George Orwell l’avait prédit : le totalitarisme détériore la langue et en crée une nouvelle pour mieux accroître son emprise et [...]
A recent NIHR report found that students with previously low connectedness scores saw improvement in well-being and eased anxiety. Read more
There are parallels between the two processes—as Charles Darwin saw. Read more