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Social Media Broke Slang. Now We All Speak Phone.
The Atlantic· 1 day agoIt was on the social-media platform some call X that I first encountered the slang term tea, an expression that originated in Black drag culture to mean...
¿Cómo se dice? California loops in AI to translate health care information
The State· 9 hours agoTranslating "cardiac arrest" into Spanish is also tricky because "arresto" means getting detained by the police. The examples of how translation could go awry in any language are endless: Words ...
Millennial mom struggles to translate Gen Alpha kid’s slang — here’s what ‘Ohio’, ‘Sigma’ and...
NY Post via Yahoo News· 6 days ago“Mewing” is up next — a word that traditionally describes a type of facial movement to create the...
‘Fax, No Printer’ May Be Teen Slang Today, But Its Story Dates Back To The 19th Century
Blavity via Yahoo News· 2 days agoTeenagers have adopted new slang that finds its roots in a play-on-words of the past as much as it...
Opinion | Today’s Teenagers Have Invented a Language That Captures the World Perfectly
New York Times· 8 hours agoMr. Marche is the author, most recently, of “The Next Civil War.” My son just completed high school...
20 Longest Words in English and Their Meanings (Plus, How To Pronounce Them!)
Parade via Yahoo News· 3 days agoAccording to Dictionary.com, this is the longest word that appears in an English dictionary and is...
Can you cash in by claiming a trademark on a trending nickname, slang word, or phrase?
Richmond Times-Dispatch· 2 days agoCan you register a trademark on a trending term? The Supreme Court just decided a case that gives a...
Pool: Having fun with word myths
The Longview News-Journal· 1 day agoHalf of it is taken up the the Oxford English Dictionary in 20 volumes; the other is a collection of books about language. On a quiet summer day I pulled...
Until Then review - friendships, fears, and Filipinos
Eurogamer· 2 hours agoWhile the setting and inspirations are Filipino through and through, the themes of friendship, love,...
Is the Venice Film Festival Big Enough for Brad and Angelina? (No.)
The Hollywood Reporter via Yahoo News· 6 days agoHow Brad Could Bump Into Angelina in Venice Running into an ex at a party can be awkward. But...