Should a country speak a single language? In India, one of the world’s most polyglot countries, the government wants more than a billion people to embrace Hindi.
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The English Paradox: Four decades of life and language in Japan
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Epiousion
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The beautiful dissociation of the Japanese language
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How Russian-language poets and their translators have responded to the war in Ukraine
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Which word begins with "y" and looks like an axe in this picture?
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Why it’s time to stop worrying about the decline of the English language
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Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends-- finding more like this with NLP
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Icono: A universal language that shows what it says
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Learn a foreign language before it’s too late
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The year woke broke: A brief history of a contested word
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The polyglots of Dardistan - At the crossroads of south and central Asia lies one of the world’s most multilingual places, with songs and poetry to match
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The rise and fall of rationality in language
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Gender in Latin and beyond
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Redefining “racism”: Against activist lexicography
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How should I refer to you? | Review of “What's Your Pronoun?”, by Dennis Baron
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A dialect dissection of Britney Spears
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The mystery of people who speak dozens of languages
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Koko, the beloved gorilla that learned to communicate using sign language, has died
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