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Posted on 7 juin 2021 In News
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 [...]
Posted on 10 mai 2021 In News
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 [...]
Posted on 31 mars 2021 In News
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 [...]
Posted on 1 mars 2021 In News
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 [...]
Posted on 1 février 2021 In News
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 [...]
Posted on 4 janvier 2021 In News
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 [...]
Posted on 22 décembre 2020 In News
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 [...]
Posted on 14 décembre 2020 In News
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 [...]
Posted on 7 décembre 2020 In News
A recent NIHR report found that students with previously low connectedness scores saw improvement in well-being and eased anxiety. Read more
Posted on 23 novembre 2020 In News
There are parallels between the two processes—as Charles Darwin saw. Read more