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‘Boats Nudged into the Sea’: Ambai on text, translation and authors who refuse to die
Ambai
· Apr 13, 2025 · 03:30 pm
‘Thx’, ‘gr8’, ‘k: Why you should think twice before using shorthand in your text messages
David Fang, The Conversation
· Apr 12, 2025 · 06:30 pm
The lore of ‘lore’: How fandoms created an online phenomenon from an Old English word
Kate McNicholas Smith, The Conversation
· Apr 10, 2025 · 05:30 pm
Language changes are early signs of Alzheimer’s – here are five things to look out for
Sarah Curtis, The Conversation
· Mar 25, 2025 · 10:00 pm
‘Wonderland of Words’: Shashi Tharoor’s ‘seriously funny’ book on the quirks of the English language
Krutika Puranik
· Feb 22, 2025 · 05:30 pm
Linguist Peggy Mohan examines early Indus Valley languages and their lack of ‘literature’
Peggy Mohan
· Feb 19, 2025 · 08:30 am
Swearing, insults and hate speech: The social and psychological power of taboo language
Jon Andoni Duñabeitia, The Conversation
· Jan 19, 2025 · 05:30 pm
Korean peninsula’s north-south split has created a distinct lingustic divide
Daniel Pieper
· Nov 13, 2024 · 07:30 pm
Personal essay: From home to Parliament, the progression of communal slurs
Radha Khan
· Sep 29, 2024 · 09:00 am
Hindi paradox: Language of cultural pride that few Indians can read and write properly in
Apoorvanand
· Sep 20, 2024 · 09:00 am
Personal essay: A writer on the dilemmas of loving the Hindi language in a Sikh Punjab
Rajiv Thind
· Sep 15, 2024 · 08:30 am
‘Rickshaw’ has its roots in Japanese, and ‘hinterland’, in German: Shashi Tharoor writes about words
Shashi Tharoor
· Aug 28, 2024 · 01:30 pm
Semantic journeys: How some communities turned words used as slurs as an assertion of pride
Rizwan Ahmad Manish Thakur
· Aug 07, 2024 · 09:00 am
Why a community-run Gondi-language school in Gadchiroli is a revolutionary step
Bodhi Ramteke
· Jun 15, 2024 · 06:30 am
How a global organisation of volunteers is kindling love for Urdu
Abdullah Zahid
· Jun 10, 2024 · 11:30 am
In the Philippines, community works to save Butuanon language from fading into silence
Ivy Marie Mangadlao, The Human Journalism Network
· May 27, 2024 · 11:30 pm
Former TN minister Aladi Aruna’s book examines the history of anti-Hindi agitations in the state
Aladi Aruna R Vijaya Sankar
· May 23, 2024 · 08:30 am
‘Dhaniya, Cilantro’: Comedian hilariously sums up the struggles of being multilingual
Scroll Staff
· May 22, 2024 · 06:00 pm
How one man is spreading Bangla education among the tribes of the Chittagong Hills in Bangladesh
Faisal Mahmud
· Feb 21, 2024 · 01:30 pm
Who created the alphabet? A historian describes the millennia-long story of the ABCs
Jane Sancinito, The Conversation
· Feb 17, 2024 · 05:30 pm
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