linguistics
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Rejoinder: The retroflex, like the Marathi ‘na’, has little do with caste
Aalok Thakkar
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Rage bait: Oxford’s word of the year reveals our digital exhaustion
Zulekha Shakoor Rajani
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How Osho taught Hindi to think
Krishna Kumar Pandey
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Why a veggie burger is considered a burger
Victoria-Elliot Bush, The Conversation
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Linguist Peggy Mohan examines early Indus Valley languages and their lack of ‘literature’
Peggy Mohan
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‘My Fair Lady’: A linguist on how the movie holds up 60 years later
Amanda Cole, The Conversation
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Languages are vanishing as climate change displaces Pakistan’s mountain communities
Fawad Ali
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All caps, ellipsis, punctuation? Young people may be facing a communication divide with older ones
Daniel Bürkle, The Conversation
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Whether in Hindi or Hungarian, swear words have similar sound patterns
Ryan McKay, The Conversation Shiri Lev-Ari, The Conversation
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How you perceive colours can depend on the language you speak
Pedro Raúl Montoro Martínez, The Conversation
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Codecracking and competition: Why the online world has fallen in love with the word puzzle Wordle
Erin Sebo, The Conversation
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Can your dog understand you? Yes, somewhat
Sophie Jacques, The Conversation
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Google Translate is sexist. What it needs is a little gender-sensitivity training
Stefanie Ullmann, The Conversation Danielle Saunders, The Conversation
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Two brothers wage a crusade to ensure that doctors communicate better with patients close to death
Michael Erard, Mosaic.com
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Millennialspeak: ‘Like’ is not a lazy linguistic filler. The word has, like, a grammar of its own
Rebecca Woods, The Conversation
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Linguists have identified the weirdest languages – and English is one of them
Adam Schembri, The Conversation
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Like English in the UK, the British Sign Language has developed its own dialects
Kearsy Cormier, The Conversation Adam Schembri, The Conversation
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Why West Africa’s widely spoken pidgin tongues should be recognised as official languages
Edosa James Edionhon, The Conversation
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What the falling popularity as ‘Donald’ as a baby name tells us about the politics of naming
Philip Seargeant, The Conversation
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Podcast: The young Indian who found fame in Europe in 20th century for speaking Esperanto
Padmaparna Ghosh and Samanth Subramanian