"Language" Blogs & Blog Posts

The Lakota Language Reclamation Project has teamed up with Disney to produce a new version of The Avengers which features the original core cast members dubbing their lines in the Lakota language. As the executive producer explains in the video above...

It's well-known now that text-generating "AI" apps are inordinately fond of certain words—"delve" being maybe the most amusing lexical Voight-Kampff indicator—but no sooner are such words listed than the AI can be told to avoid using them. And so...

The Eggcorn Database [via] collects and defines words misheard, mistaken or misspelled as other words—like "Eggcorns" and "acorns"—including etymologies and notable examples. It's an Oxfit dictionary for those eye-twitching moments from internet...

My kid just turned 4 years old, and as he tries to make sense of the magical mysteries of spelling words, there's one question that he keeps returning to: why does the letter "c" sometimes sound like an "s," but also sound like a "k" sometimes? ̵...

We've known that whales are intelligent, emotional mammals who often sing songs. But now, a team of researchers from Project CETI (Cetacean Translation Initiative) and the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab have identified what they...

   https://youtu.be/l5ukf29-9RQ?si=wAMDEqU2eHx_4G9N Proud Gumbaynggir and Yaegl man, Maanyung (Michael Laurie), singing a Michael Laurie-Thom Mak composition, Bilawali (Home), in the Yaygirr language of the Yaegl People of the Lower C...

This is inspired. Waldo Jaquith created a Mastodon bot in response to the cliché email opening sentence of "I hope this email finds you well." "Twice a day it proposes a novel way to conclude that sentence that opens so many emails," Jaquith explain...