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In the Swiss Alps, a plan to tidy up Romansh—spoken by less than one per cent of the country—set off a decades-long quarrel ...

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Weaving together ancient pictographs and modern stereotypes, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith offers us a complex, multi-dimensional ...

I pushed a chatbot through several millennia of linguistic evolution. An AI from the year 5000 lectured me about pronouns.

In response to systematic censorship by social media, Palestinians and their allies have built a playbook of tactics to beat ...

Large language models have become the public face of artificial intelligence, but a growing group of researchers and practitioners argue that these systems are nowhere near genuine understanding.

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Anne Elvey’s (C)loud confronts clerical child abuse by exposing how it corrodes religious language itself, asking whether ...

Is language core to thought, or a separate process? For 15 years, the neuroscientist Ev Fedorenko has gathered evidence of a ...

The word 'retarded' was once an accepted medical term before it became an insult, was gradually phased out, and has now been revived by Musk and Trump ...