language trends
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Semantic journeys: How some communities turned words used as slurs as an assertion of pride
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Do languages really ‘live’ or ‘die’?: Why the metaphor is misleading
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How Prashant Kishor has changed India’s political vocabulary
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What Oxford’s word of the year ‘goblin mode’ says about the mental health discourse and social media
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Why people hate or love the sound of certain words
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Five ways in which British English has changed in the internet era
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How Covid-19 has not only changed our vocabulary, but also made us use language more gently
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Is Rajasthani a single language or a spectrum of many related but distinct tongues?
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Why is the Covid-19 pandemic being compared to war? Western literature from the 1800s has answers
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Rajasthani: How a mother language can be lost, and how ‘folk’ histories can reclaim it
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You know that warm, fuzzy feeling evoked by cat videos? There is a Sanskrit word to describe it
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Why are language and grammar the way they are? Because of the limitations of the human mind
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How Telugu has become America’s fastest growing foreign language
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No matter what the language of a book (or a person), why do we like some words more than others?
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Why West Africa’s widely spoken pidgin tongues should be recognised as official languages
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The idea of ‘untranslatable’ words says more about English speakers than other cultures
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Talking in many tongues: London and Mumbai are multilingual – but in different ways
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Hindi is now the fourth-most widely spoken language in New Zealand, says country’s envoy
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Watch: Why the Thanksgiving bird turkey is called 'Hindi' in Turkey and 'Indian chicken' in France
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Watch: How 'flavour' and 'centre' became 'flavor' and 'center', thanks to a man named Noah Webster
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A Delhi artist is trying to popularise Urdu by putting Faiz and Chughtai on T-shirts
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How the British military became a champion for language learning
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Stop snapping selfies and start vaping – it’s the word of the year