'Mogging' has suddenly become a common term. Is that a problem?
Until recently, if someone had said “mog” to me, I probably would have thought they were talking about the cat…
Category: Language
Language
What happens when we lose a language?
We’re incredibly fortunate to know anything at all about the Ubykh language. In the 1800s, tens of thousands of people…
The Pentagon says it's focused on maximizing combat effectiveness. Why is slang from the 'incel' community becoming more widely used?
A recent tweet from the US Department of Defense boasted about the military’s killing capabilities with the phrase: “Low cortisol.…
"We're a bit jealous of Kneacap": Europe's minority languages navigating the digital age, by Stephen Burgen.
There’s an Irish saying, “tír gan teanga, tír gan anam”: a country without a language is a country without a…
Italian curses and German creativity: the unique ways people swear across the globe.
When researchers asked people worldwide to list every taboo word they could think of, the results revealed striking cultural differences.…