All known human languages display a surprising pattern: the most frequent word in a language is twice as frequent as the second most frequent, three times as frequent as the third, and so on. This is ...

Timothy Jay, a scholar in the science of swearing, has a few choice words about why we curse and how to cut back (if you want ...

For all the world’s linguistic diversity, human languages still obey some universal patterns. These run even deeper than ...

Language has long been considered a uniquely human trait, with features that mark it out as distinct from the communication of all other species. However, research published in Science has uncovered ...

Karen Attiah wrote a short opinion piece about how the nationwide assault on diversity, equity and inclusion led by conservatives ...

Technically, "idiots" can't vote in Kentucky. Here's how a House bill wants to change that language in the state constitution.

Buzz on social media is that two AIs devised their own language. Shocking? End of times? Or might be something more ...

What if the unknown is not a flaw to be eradicated but a dynamic potential to be engaged? Artificial intelligence, in its ...

Learn the power of words—like “I trust you to handle this” vs. “You should have known better”—to motivate or demotivate your ...

Progressives have created the fiction in which the US Constitution “is what the Supreme Court says it is.” In reality, the ...

Kindness and empathy, says the president of Independent Women’s Forum, didn’t work out. And strategies have changed out of necessity. Lost, or arguably stolen, along the way and still getting ...