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Two new phrases in a top Chinese dictionary highlight Beijing’s economic hopes—and pitfalls
Quartz via Yahoo Finance· 2 years agoThe latest edition of the Standard Dictionary of Contemporary Chinese includes a number of new...
Weibo vows to regulate homonyms, 'misspelt' words if they are used to evade China's strict...
South China Morning Post via Yahoo Finance· 2 years agoChina's popular social media platform Weibo is cracking down on the use of homonyms and deliberately...
The Things We Can't Say
Reason.com via Yahoo News· 8 months agoIllustration: Lex Villena; Yuliaglam An obscure webpage that Stanford University had quietly published seven months earlier made a huge splash in late...
10 of the bestselling individual books of all time
Deseret News via Yahoo News· 5 months agoCalculating book sales since the beginning of time is complicated, but recent standardization has made it easier. Read for the top ten most selling books...
Op-Ed: Learn Ukrainian, defeat Russia
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAntonina Sidorenko, 9, holds a Ukrainian language schoolbook on the first day of online school in her village in southern Ukraine in September. (Dimitar...
Mary Bullard: Avoiding 'twitterpation' on social media
The Monroe News via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe word “twitterpated” was coined by Disney in the 1942 movie “Bambi.” The Oxford English...
AI updates of the week: Elon Musk’s xAI is coming, LinkedIn and Microsoft’s AI assistants
Euronews via Yahoo News· 6 months agoArtificial Intelligence (AI) has been the word of the week, with a two-day AI summit in the UK and...
19 International Condiments You Should Consider Stocking In Your Pantry
Tasting Table via Yahoo News· 2 months agointernational condiments in small bowls - Static Media / Shutterstock / Getty It's hard to nail down...
Computer modeling is tracing the hidden evolution of sign languages
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 3 months agoIn tracing signed vocabularies’ evolutions, researchers applied phylogenetic analysis typically...
Autodidacts, Welcome!
CoinDesk via Yahoo Finance· 2 years agoIf you hang around long enough in the crypto space you’ll soon hear the word “autodidact.” As defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary it means simply...
