Linguistics — Entidade

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How a teacher missed my old friend’s promise | Brief letters

Juliet Gardiner | England’s World Cup hope | DIY spirits | SlangIt was good to read David Kynaston’s appreciation of Juliet Gardiner’s writing, so widely admired (Juliet Gardiner obituary, 14 July). T

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Recalling the joys of learning languages | Letters

Readers respond to an article by Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett and note that a willingness to ‘act the goat’ is the greatest predictor of successHow refreshing to read Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett’s piece on the a

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At last, a proper excuse for monoglots to learn another language: it helps keep your brain young | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

I love busting out a French subjunctive in pursuit of better restaurant service, so it’s a joy to discover there’s a neuroscientific upside to being multilingualIt’s hard to pick a favourite PG Wodeho

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Can you solve it? I say tomato, you say tomato

Pronunciation puzzlesA homonym is a word that has the same pronunciation as, or is spelt identical to, another word with a different meaning.For example, the letter “a” has the homonym “eh”.(Second op

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French professor accused of ‘gigantic hoax’ after inventing Nobel-style prize

Authorities investigate Florent Montaclair over award given to himself and others including Noam ChomskyAt a ceremony at the French national assembly attended by Nobel prize winners, former government

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AI learns language from skewed sources. That could change how we humans speak – and think | Bruce Schneier

Large language models aren’t trained on real-life conversations. As we encounter their language, it could affect our ownBecause of the way they are trained, large language models capture only a slice

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An Autistic Conlang

In this episode, I spoke with Gideon Henner about his language Laut, a thought experiment on how to create a language to illustrate some of the communication differences autistic people have. Links: &

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Number of plays attributed to 16th-century playwright Thomas Kyd double in new edition

Exclusive: Canon now includes domestic tragedy Arden of Faversham, which is attributed solely to Kyd and ‘not at all’ to ShakespeareThe number of plays attributed to the 16th-century playwright Thomas