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Opinion & Features

This one novel word speaks volumes about how an entire language works

London taxi drivers once memorised hundreds of streets before the advent of satellite navigation. As a result, these drivers developed enlarged hippocampi – the brain region associated with spatial memory.
Opinion & Features

How generative AI could change the way we think and speak

In the past, monarchs were routinely praised for their wisdom, justice and foresight; the subjects were equally routinely described as grateful, humble and awestruck.
Opinion & Features
LIFE & CULTURE

The Middle Ages are making a political comeback

Sikander Mirza Changezi, who co-founded a library to promote Urdu in Old Delhi in 1993, says of the Internet: “People started thinking buying books is useless, and this hit the income of booksellers and publishers, and they switched to other businesses.”
Lifestyle

Fading literature: Delhi's famed Urdu Bazaar on last legs

French linguist Bernard Cerquiglini hopes to convey the cross-Channel linguistic tangle since the Norman conquest of 1066 – and how ridiculous French resistance to “anglicisms” can be.
Lifestyle

English just 'badly pronounced French', Paris academic says

Tom Holland in his role as Spider-Man in the film, Spider-Man: No Way From Home. The 2023 word of the year, "rizz", earned mainstream recognition in June when an interviewer asked Holland about his "rizz". He replied that he had none.
Lifestyle

'Rizz' charms Oxford wordsmiths to emerge as word of the year

Conceived in 1857, the OED was a huge crowdsourcing project—“the Wikipedia of the 19th century”—comprising 3,000 people.
Lifestyle
LIFE & CULTURE

The stories behind the Oxford English Dictionary

Meta is making the model available to the public for non-commercial use.
Companies & Markets

Meta releases AI model for translating speech between dozens of languages

It can be tough to write about machines without metaphors. But AI is too important for loose language.
Opinion & Features
THE BROAD VIEW

Talking about AI in human terms is natural – but wrong

Climate change and finance are two chronically abbreviation-heavy sectors (for example, QELROS: Quantified Emissions Limitation and Reduction Objectives, from the Kyoto Protocol).
Opinion & Features
THE BOTTOM LINE

The unstoppable advance of the acronym

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