The spelling and grammar rules do not apply on the Millennial Internet™. That's because millennials have created a new rulebook for a variant of written English unique to social media. A rulebook ...

January 22, 2026 - Fausto Lopez finished high school, got an associate degree and applied to attend a four-year college - all while inside juvenile detention. But an in-depth look at the science ...

Minae Mizumura's The Fall of Language in the Age of English is an eye-opening call to consciousness about the role of language: what it means for the fate of national languages at a time when English ...

Half of the dialogue in my film “CODA” is in American Sign Language. How do you write for a language that has no written form? I didn’t. Not at first. When I started studying ASL, it struck me how ...

Did you know that English used to be viewed as a language for everyday people? For a long time, scholars preferred to write ...

When I (Nakamura) first arrived in the U.S. for a postdoctoral fellowship, the anxiety of speaking English struck the first moment I put my feet in the immigration hall at Miami International Airport.

Andreea S. Calude receives funding from the Royal Society Marsden Grant and Catalyst Seeding Grant . University of Waikato provides funding as a member of The Conversation NZ. University of Waikato ...

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order declaring English as the United States’ official language, the first designation of such kind in the country’s near 250-year history. “From the ...

About a decade ago, when I was an editor at The New York Times Book Review, we left the name of the reviewer off a cover review. The book’s title and author’s name were there (“Bismarck: A Life,” by ...