‘My Fair Lady’: A linguist on how the movie holds up 60 years later

Amanda Cole, The Conversation

· Oct 23, 2024 · 10:00 pm

Languages are vanishing as climate change displaces Pakistan’s mountain communities

Fawad Ali

· Jul 24, 2024 · 07:30 pm

All caps, ellipsis, punctuation? Young people may be facing a communication divide with older ones

Daniel Bürkle, The Conversation

· Apr 15, 2023 · 11:30 pm

Whether in Hindi or Hungarian, swear words have similar sound patterns

Ryan McKay, The Conversation Shiri Lev-Ari, The Conversation

· Dec 10, 2022 · 07:30 pm

How you perceive colours can depend on the language you speak

Pedro Raúl Montoro Martínez, The Conversation

· Oct 19, 2022 · 09:30 pm

Codecracking and competition: Why the online world has fallen in love with the word puzzle Wordle

Erin Sebo, The Conversation

· Jan 26, 2022 · 07:30 pm

Can your dog understand you? Yes, somewhat

Sophie Jacques, The Conversation

· Jan 21, 2022 · 11:30 pm

Google Translate is sexist. What it needs is a little gender-sensitivity training

Stefanie Ullmann, The Conversation Danielle Saunders, The Conversation

· Apr 05, 2021 · 11:30 pm

Two brothers wage a crusade to ensure that doctors communicate better with patients close to death

Michael Erard, Mosaic.com

· Sep 01, 2019 · 08:30 pm

Millennialspeak: ‘Like’ is not a lazy linguistic filler. The word has, like, a grammar of its own

Rebecca Woods, The Conversation

· Aug 25, 2019 · 12:30 pm

Linguists have identified the weirdest languages – and English is one of them

Adam Schembri, The Conversation

· Apr 20, 2019 · 08:30 pm

Like English in the UK, the British Sign Language has developed its own dialects

Kearsy Cormier, The Conversation Adam Schembri, The Conversation

· Mar 08, 2019 · 09:30 pm

Why West Africa’s widely spoken pidgin tongues should be recognised as official languages

Edosa James Edionhon, The Conversation

· Aug 27, 2018 · 11:30 pm

What the falling popularity as ‘Donald’ as a baby name tells us about the politics of naming

Philip Seargeant, The Conversation

· May 26, 2018 · 06:30 pm

Podcast: The young Indian who found fame in Europe in 20th century for speaking Esperanto

Padmaparna Ghosh and Samanth Subramanian

· May 20, 2018 · 03:30 pm

How researchers combined linguistics and archaeology to determine the age of Dravidian languages

Michael Dunn, The Conversation Annemarie Verkerk, The Conversation

· Apr 02, 2018 · 01:30 pm

The family of Dravidian languages is 4,500 years old, finds new study

Scroll Staff

· Mar 22, 2018 · 01:21 pm

Between the lines: What Kazakhstan’s move from Russian Cyrillic script to Latin alphabet signifies

Andrew Linn, The Conversation

· Nov 23, 2017 · 09:30 pm

The leading academy for French is up in arms against a movement to make the language less sexist

Olivia Walsh, The Conversation Thomas Godard, The Conversation

· Nov 17, 2017 · 08:30 pm

Red, yellow, pink and green: How the world’s languages name the rainbow

Claire Bowern, The Conversation

· Nov 18, 2016 · 03:30 pm