"Language" Blogs & Blog Posts

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...

Damn-en it! A Donald Trump spokesperson who tried to paint President Biden as a man who "can hardly speak" hilariously flubbed up her own words in the process. "The transcript in the Hur report was incredibly damn-en-ing to Joe Biden," Karoline Leavi...

There is a Royal Order of Adjectives, and you follow it without knowing what it is—a particular sequence to use when more than one adjective precedes a noun. There are exceptions, of course, because English is three languages in a trenchcoat. ̵...

Researchers from the SETI Institute report what may have been the first conversation with whales in the humpbacks' own language. The SETI scientists have been exploring interspecies communication to learn something about how we may someday interact w...

Sam Altman? Yawn. Bill Gates? Meh. Our greatest AI visionary is ... an English professor in Illinois.