A few days ago, while addressing his people in Italy, President Ruto stirred the hornet’s nest by claiming that Nigerians cannot speak English - that “you need a translator” to understand them when th ...

JH Prynne, who has died aged 89, was a poet and teacher whose work took the question of what poetry is to unprecedented ...

Chinese-English translation is more than swapping words—it’s about conveying meaning, culture, and emotion across two vastly different linguistic worlds. From idioms steeped in history to grammar that ...

Several others are, to put it mildly, in a rocky state. The University of Venda, for example, is probably still the only one ...

Adapt the old ways.

I’ve noticed that Google searches now offer the opportunity to dive deep using AI for more information concerning whatever it ...

English is full of words with sounds that dropped out because of natural processes. “Falcon” was originally “faucon,” but ...

As a linguistics professor, I’m often asked why English is decaying before our eyes, whether it’s “like” being used ...

Manipulators often use subtle phrases that sound kind but are actually forms of gaslighting, love bombing, and emotional ...

Rio Bravo, Unforgiven, and No Country for Old Men are all among the best and most universally acclaimed Western movies ever ...

J.H. Prynne has always seemed to me to represent the real potential of poetry, as an art that can encompass ...

Negation-based language is cognitively ineffective. And when amplified by AI-generated writing it distorts how people engage ...