A brief history of Esperanto, the 135-year-old language of peace hated by Hitler and Stalin alike
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAn Esperanto teacher instructs a class in a room with a painting of the language's creator on the...
Man pleads guilty to threatening to 'bomb' Merriam-Webster offices over gender definitions
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA California man pleaded guilty last week to threatening "to shoot up and bomb" dictionary publisher...
‘Avatar: The Way of Water’: Meet the Real-Life Na’vi Community
Rolling Stone via Yahoo News· 9 months agoThe Indigenous blue humanoids of James Cameron’s Pandora have inspired a community of people who’ve...
Inside ChatGPT: How AI chatbots work
NBC News via Yahoo News· 4 months agoBy now, you’ve heard of ChatGPT and its text generation capabilities. It has passed a business school exam, confounded teachers looking to spot cheaters...
Another Way: A mother’s dictionary
The Daily American via Yahoo News· 1 year agoHave you ever caught yourself using one of your mother’s — or father’s words, that doesn’t really come from any language that you know of other than...
The Scientists Who Cracked Google Translate for Whale Sounds
The Daily Beast via Yahoo News· 1 year agoTom MustillThe global mecca for whale-watching, Monterey Bay, is a short drive from the epicenter of...
Ernie Mazzatenta: Steering clear of loaded language
Times-News via Yahoo News· 1 year agoWriting analysts have been decrying the use of fancy language for as long as I can recall.. . and, most likely, longer. Despite this ongoing opposition, such language remains highly visible ...
Is DALL-E's art borrowed or stolen?
Engadget· 1 year agoIn 1917, Marcel Duchamp submitted a sculpture to the Society of Independent Artists under a false name. Fountain was a urinal, bought from a toilet...
PETA suggests a new, animal-friendly name for the baseball bullpen: arm barn
Virginian Pilot via Yahoo News· 2 years agoArm barn is the “animal-friendly” term the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, whose Norfolk-based headquarters is a long fly ball from Harbor Park, suggested for baseball bullpens.
Voices: Here’s what the Tory Leadership party is getting wrong about ‘woke’
The Independent via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThere has been something deeply depressing about the Tory leadership contest. No, I’m not talking...