Language Trends
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What Oxford’s word of the year ‘goblin mode’ says about the mental health discourse and social media
Does having a word for what we feel make it better?
Zulekha Shakoor Rajani
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Why people hate or love the sound of certain words
The phenomenon where the sound of a word triggers an emotion or a meaning is referred to as ‘sound symbolism’.
Morten H Christiansen, The Conversation & Nick Chater, The Conversation
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Five ways in which British English has changed in the internet era
A new study based on a 100 million-word sample of current language shows us just how it has evolved.
Vaclav Brezina, The Conversation
Trending
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Heavy snowfall, sparse crowd, mixed feelings: Bharat Jodo Yatra comes to an end in Srinagar
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A hospitality professional recounts her encounters with film stars and directors
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Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar II was the people’s emperor – courteous to his own and the British
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Like ‘Jallianwala Bagh’: How Adani is invoking nationalism to counter allegations of corruption
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Watch: Comedian Shraddha captures the thoughts of a recently laid-off IT employee
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How Covid-19 has not only changed our vocabulary, but also made us use language more gently
In April and July 2020, the Oxford English Dictionary released special updates to accommodate new words born in the pandemic.
Janice Pariat
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Is Rajasthani a single language or a spectrum of many related but distinct tongues?
How can a language with all the granularity and diversity that comes out of a thousand years of evolution be adapted to contemporary institutions?
Dalpat Singh Rajpurohit & Vishes Kothari
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Why is the Covid-19 pandemic being compared to war? Western literature from the 1800s has answers
But unlike our times, war was a metaphor for the problem, not the solution.
Julia M Wright, The Conversation
Video
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Watch: Hilarious moment when American football coach’s daughter imitates him during press conference
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Watch: Comedian Shraddha captures the thoughts of a recently laid-off IT employee
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Watch: Comedian imagines finance minister’s budget speech with ‘Pathaan’ collection, BBC documentary
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Watch: Rahul, Priyanka Gandhi have snowball fight on final day of Bharat Jodo Yatra in Kashmir
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Watch: Snow avalanche caught on camera in Chamoli, Uttarakhand
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Rajasthani: How a mother language can be lost, and how ‘folk’ histories can reclaim it
On February 21, International Mother Language Day, a study in losing and finding a tongue.
Vishes Kothari
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You know that warm, fuzzy feeling evoked by cat videos? There is a Sanskrit word to describe it
Researchers believe that a sudden burst of love, a sense of kinship, and faith in worship are all grounded in a single emotion.
Alan Fiske, Aeon
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Why are language and grammar the way they are? Because of the limitations of the human mind
Studies show that humans are better able to follow grammatical rules that involve changing vowels around consonants and not the other way around.
David Adger, The Conversation
The Reel
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Shah Rukh Khan steals the show at ‘Pathaan’ team’s first media appearance
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In Ranjan Palit’s new film, a ‘watchdog society’ filled with persecution and paranoia
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Why you can’t keep Anurag Kashyap down
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Start the week with a film: ‘Force Majeure’ is a chilly satire about modern marriage
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A hospitality professional recounts her encounters with film stars and directors
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How Telugu has become America’s fastest growing foreign language
Between 2010 and 2017, the number of native Telugu speakers in the US surged 86% – the largest uptick in a foreign language-speaking group, a study found.
Ananya Bhattacharya, qz.com
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No matter what the language of a book (or a person), why do we like some words more than others?
It has to do with sounds, and the lack of baggage.
Carmen Álvarez-Mayo, The Conversation
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Why West Africa’s widely spoken pidgin tongues should be recognised as official languages
In Nigeria alone, three and five million people use pidgin as their first language while another 75 million have it as their second language.
Edosa James Edionhon, The Conversation
The Field
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Football: Lionel Messi on Argentina’s Qatar 2022 triumph – ‘The World Cup trophy called out to me’
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FA Cup: West Ham ease past Derby to set up Manchester United clash
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Hockey World Cup: Graham Reid leaves behind big shoes to fill
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Tri-series: Deepti Sharma, Jemimah Rodrigues star as India defeat West Indies to stay unbeaten
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U19 Women’s T20 World Cup: Shweta Sehrawat among three Indians in Team of the Tournament