Discover the "Labial Compromise", the linguistic art form where translators prioritize mouth shapes over literal definitions to create seamless dubbing.…
Contemporary with the famous Sumerian cuneiform, Proto-Elamite is a 5,000-year-old script from ancient Iran that remains almost entirely undeciphered. This…
Retronyms are new names given to old objects when a modern version arrives to steal the default title—like how "guitars"…
The Indus Valley Civilization left behind magnificent ruins and thousands of mysterious seals featuring a "unicorn" and short strings of…
Tradition holds that King Ramkhamhaeng the Great single-handedly created the Thai writing system in 1283, but does this legend hold…
Long before AI could write a poem, the pioneers of computational linguistics took on a monumental task: teaching a room-sized…
What if you could record every moment of your child's life to understand how they learn to talk? MIT researcher…
Ever wonder if that glowing five-star review is too good to be true? The secrets of deceptive writing are often…
Go inside your smart speaker and discover how it turns sound into text through the lens of linguistics. Explore the…
Forget the weathered notebook and tape recorder. Modern linguists are deploying a high-tech toolkit to document endangered languages, using portable…
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