We’re doing a deep dive into generativism, the linguistic school of thought championed by Noam Chomsky. It’s had an enormous impact on the direction of…
What we call sometimes Chinese is really a gigantic family of languages. They’re somewhat divided in mutual intelligibility, and somewhat united in their writing system.…
There’s a new show on Netflix, and it’s The History of Swearing, featuring Nicolas Cage. Backing him up is a team of researchers, comedians — and…