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Hola! This Is Mayor Eric Adams, Making an A.I. Robocall
New York City is embracing artificial intelligence and using it to send robocalls featuring the mayor’s voice in many languages.
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A Patois Revival: Jamaica Weighs Language Change as Ties to Britain Fray
A push is underway to make Jamaica’s Patois an official language, on par with English, as the country weighs cutting…
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‘Our Language Is Dying’
The struggle to save Gagauz, a Turkic tongue used by dwindling numbers of people in an ethnic enclave of Moldova,…
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Opinion
Is ‘Yo’ the Gender-Neutral Pronoun You’ve Been Looking For?
I am in the middle of writing a book on pronouns in English. My focus this time out is on…
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World
A Yiddish Haven Thrives in Australia
Australia has the largest proportion of Holocaust survivors of any country besides Israel. In Melbourne, some of their descendants are…
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Why Every Women’s World Cup City Has Two Names
A concerted effort to say Indigenous names correctly, and tell the stories behind them, will show up in stadiums in…
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Rehman Rahi, 97, Eminent Kashmiri Poet Who Restored a Language, Dies
Kashmir’s unofficial poet laureate, he gave voice to the rich culture of a bitterly divided territory and helped give his…
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Opinion
The Secret Lives of Words
Some time ago, I fell into conversation with a colleague about what we had been reading lately, and the person…
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Magazine
Good Fantasy Writing Is Pure Magic
All too often clunky dialogue breaks the spell of CGI-heavy TV epics. To be reminded what language can do by…
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Magazine
What a 1985 Novel Can Tell Us About Life in the 2020s: Almost Everything
Noah Baumbach’s funny and very stylish film adaptation of “White Noise” is a great invitation to return to the source…
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