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Some languages in the world are facing extinction rapidly. Language Documentation helps us to safeguard and preserve them.

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A conversation about salty language and peppering questions with examples and explanations in informal contexts.

After uncovering a controversy in the captions of Russians at War, Rachel Ho digs into the art of translation.

E VEN AS AMERICA’S relationship with China enters a new, less predictable era, Donald Trump and Xi Jinping see the value in ...

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By Cailin RileyIn the hallway just inside the doors of the Hampton Bays High School auditorium, a student art project adorns ...

This is from a YouGov survey from just a few years ago: nearly half of Americans say they believe in ghosts, and more than one-third say they have personally felt the presence of a ghost.

Though born and raised in Allentown, Pennsylvania, Lutz wields the English language like a polymath émigré—Nabokov if Nabokov ...

Like many words in the English language, the way it is said can change slightly depending on who you are. Wu-ster-sher or woo-ster-sher are the two most common ways it is pronounced, according to ...

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