Tracking the Evolution of English
While the Internet and smartphones may have ruined our ability to spell, they aren’t rapidly warping the integrity of the English language as a whole. Yet. Read more
Google Translation’s Silent Voices
For Google Translate to be truly universal, there is more work to be done – and it begins with two geographic regions historically underrepresented by mainstream media: Central Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. Read more
LOL! OMG! Is Texting Changing Language?
An overuse of exclamation marks is something it seems most of us can tolerate!! What some folks seem to despise, however, is another technology-motivated language change: the explosion of textese. LOL! Read more
What Wo(Men) Want
A social media monitoring company analyzed 27 billion digital conversations in order to parse the age-old question: what do women (and men) want? Read more
Zebra vs. Blimp: a QWERTY Experiment
Think vs. Dare? Blimp vs. Zebra? You may never look at your keyboard the same way again. Read more