My father’s mother tongue
After reconnecting with my family in La Línea, I made a resolution to stop using Google Translate and learn Spanish.
ByAfter reconnecting with my family in La Línea, I made a resolution to stop using Google Translate and learn Spanish.
ByThe author on the evolution of language.
ByTech visionaries may dream of a wordless future, but even Elon Musk cannot disrupt the communal power of speech.
ByTechnology has made foreign languages easy, but robs us of the depth of understanding.
ByYoung people use code words like “seggs” to evade social media’s content filters, while still being bombarded with violent and…
BySome argue that lived experience and personal choice trump biology – but they are wrong.
ByWe should question a mindset that viciously excludes whole groups of people.
ByKeir Starmer’s party believes it has found a term that speaks positively to all parts of the political spectrum.
ByNikhil Krishnan’s A Terribly Serious Adventure shows how Oxford’s “ordinary language” movement, pioneered by JL Austin and Gilbert Ryle, looked…
ByOn social media, terms coined to describe specific relationship dynamics are increasingly common – and increasingly misused.
ByThe media attack on the charity’s “inclusive” wording forces us to choose between blustering bigotry and preening sanctimony.
ByThe stock conservative metaphor calls to mind the right sort of chaps doing the right sorts of things, no matter…
ByThérèse Coffey is engaging in the wanton destruction of a British institution.
ByThe OED’s task – to define every English word – is as ambitious as it was 150 years ago.
ByIn the current thinking, my drama degree is deemed to have failed me.
ByThe OED’s task – to define every English word – is as ambitious as it was 150 years ago.
ByThe June 2022 update to the Oxford English Dictionary reflects our changing understanding of gender and sexuality, as well as…
ByThe ancient Scottish language is wrestling with new and old identities.
ByEthnic minority activists see similarities between the invasion of Ukraine and Russian suppression of their own cultures.
ByIn the media there is something distinctly racist about the double standards with which we apply the word “migrant”.
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