“Pretentious”; “ugly as a tick on a dog’s belly”; “transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing”—what unfortunate grammatical phenomenon has been the object of such derision? The answer is hidden in plain sight in the sentence itself, …

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“I scream. You scream. We all scream for Muzqaymoq!” The language of ice cream may not be international, but humans’ undying love of this summertime-gloop is as global as taxes, death and refrigerators. An article …

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It´s not just because of Covid-19. As more and more people have been working from home and using video conferencing over the past years, the boundaries between the spoken and written word have become increasingly …

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The year is 2020 – and possibly the least ordinary period in our lifetime. The entire world has been disrupted by COVID-19 or Coronavirus, an infectious disease that has taken over half a million lives, …

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Language is inarguably one of if not the most essential of the building blocks of communication. It is no surprise that the utterance of a child’s first word is a hallmark moment in its life. …

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In 1996, Bill Gates proclaimed that “Content is king” and his prediction couldn’t have been any more accurate. Over the past few decades, we have transitioned into an information economy, successfully replacing industrialization. Although this …

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