Languages are windows into the worlds of the people who speak them—reflecting what they value and experience daily.

Pidgin evolved at the height of the slave trade in the 1700s and 1800s, to enable the buying and selling of millions of human ...

The mathematician Tai-Danae Bradley is using category theory to try to understand both human and AI-generated language.

We use it for everything: from ordering takeout to speaking to your doctor, to learning, growing, and falling in love, ...

When words fail them, creative writers imagine entirely new ones. Author Patti Callahan Henry explains fake languages, ...

Linguist Emily Bender and colleagues described the language models as stochastic parrots, meaning they repeat what ... what a random person who had written the previous text would produce.

An expert has explained the hidden meanings behind emojis that parents ... "I have heard of incel language before, and I’ve been chronicling online for better or for worse, and I had heard ...

In one of those conversations, I learned about a language kerfuffle from a few years ... Commentary in and out of Australia was mean, calling it racist and condescending for McGowan to have ...