President Trump, however, is not the only famous person to coin a weird word. Others have amused and confused the public with equally baffling terms (#serfbort, anyone?). Here is a list of seven ...

Across dozens of languages, people associate the same sounds with the same shapes, according to new research. What can this tell us about how language first developed in humans? A new study found that ...

Leslie Katz led a team that explored the intersection of tech and culture, plus all manner of awe-inspiring science, from space to AI and archaeology. When she's not smithing words, she's probably ...

A TikTok video hilariously demonstrates how much of the meaning of language is conveyed separately from its content. In March, Diego J. Rivas began posting TikTok videos of him recreating what ...

“Language is a huge field, and we are novices in this. We know a lot about how different areas of the brain are involved in linguistic tasks, but the details are not very clear,” says Mohsen Jamali, a ...

In the end it was all gibberish. It was the final round of the night at the annual Press vs. Politicians Spelling Bee at the National Press Club, and the suspense was mounting. Whittled down from a ...

We love to tell dogs what to do, but we rarely consider whether they understand what we’re saying. Pet owners assume their dogs comprehend commands like sit, stay, or heel — even play dead and make me ...

Back in 2016, Google Translate began leveraging Neural Machine Translation to drastically improve the quality of translations. Just last month, Google announced that NMT now works completely offline ...

Have you ever thought that in another life you and your favourite celebrity would be close friends? It is a feeling held by so many, the Cambridge Dictionary has decided to choose ‘parasocial’ as its ...

Why do some languages have simpler grammars than others? Researchers propose that the size of the community influences the complexity of the language that evolves in it. When small and large groups of ...