Damn, the English language. I’ve heard – though, I’m no linguist – that English is one of the most difficult languages to learn, or, for that matter, to write. We struggle with it on a daily basis at ...

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For certain nerdy types (you know the ones), language books make great gifts. Unlike mysteries and memoirs that are quickly devoured in e-book form — then forgotten — informative, fun grammar and ...

In a new study, Apple researchers present a new diffusion model that can write up to 128 times faster than its counterparts.

A group of volunteers is attempting to bring the language of Latin back to the masses, by offering translated captions of Nasa’s photos of Mars in the wording favored by historians, posh people and ...

Do you ever get that overwhelming sense that you've done or seen or read something before? I surely do. And it hit me hard earlier this week when I stumbled across a story about indigenous-language ...

I’ve sometimes idly wondered why so many people feel so strongly about grammar and the particular ways we write and speak. Think of the Twitter wars over the Oxford comma and Facebook arguments over ...

It’s an odd thing to be part of a national end-of-year phenomenon, but I was, for almost a decade: I was one of the editors involved in choosing and publicizing Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year. For ...

Etymology Nerd, aka Adam Aleksic, unpacks where teen slang comes from — and why it evolves too fast for adults to keep up.

For decades, coders wrote critical systems in C and C++. Now they turn to Rust. Many software projects emerge because—somewhere out there—a programmer had a personal problem to solve. That’s more or ...

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