The World Economic Forum shows how Trump’s policies are alienating traditional allies, giving more space to China and ...

As todays Word of the Day, sesquipedalian reminds us that language is elastic. It can be stretched, compressed, embellished or stripped bare.

Language can often be overlooked in conversations, seen only as a vessel to communicate ideas. But for many living with […] ...

On December 31st Latvian Radio 4 (LR4), one of the Baltic country’s main public radio channels, bid farewell to its listeners after nearly 25 years. It went silent not for lack of demand or because of ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since ...

Complex language around the circular economy is alienating consumers, a new report from SUEZ has found. The report, commissioned by SUEZ recycling and recovery UK (SUEZ), found that use of the term ...

Is language core to thought, or a separate process? For 15 years, the neuroscientist Ev Fedorenko has gathered evidence of a language network in the human brain — and has found some similarities to ...

Last week, many disabled Americans were shocked, but not surprised, as they told BTPM and described on social media, that President Donald Trump used the word “retarded” in a social media post ...

Democratic Tennessee congressional candidate Aftyn Behn on Sunday defended her past alienating comments by noting she was a “private citizen” when she made them. “Some of your past tweets have gotten ...

Are tech companies on the verge of creating thinking machines with their tremendous AI models, as top executives claim they are? Not according to one expert. We humans tend to associate language with ...

Four decades after five boys formed a group at school to play music together, over 20,000 people gather in the O2 Arena on a Friday night to watch them perform, as they have in venues across the world ...

Your quest to show up in AI search results is making your content less desirable to the humans consuming it. You’re probably alienating your human readers whenever you create Answering Engine ...