The Town That Fought Over Its Apostrophe
What happens when a local council tries to erase a single punctuation mark from a place name? In the English village of St Austell, it ignited a surprisingly fierce linguistic…
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What happens when a local council tries to erase a single punctuation mark from a place name? In the English village of St Austell, it ignited a surprisingly fierce linguistic…
We use them every day to add an aside or crack a digital smile, but have you ever wondered where parentheses come from? From their origins as a 14th-century scribal…
The U.S. Second Amendment's meaning hinges on a single, hotly debated comma. This grammatical ambiguity has fueled a centuries-long battle between two interpretations: is the right to bear arms a…
Before any AI can understand language, it must first shatter sentences into pieces through a process called tokenization. This crucial first step is far more complex than it seems, presenting…
Hervé Bazin (1911-1996), a famous French writer and essayist, is known not only for his literary contributions but also for his intriguing proposals concerning French...