Much has been said and written about Ludwig Wittgenstein and his theory of language, but the video narrated by British philosopher and author Alain de Botton provides a fresh and ... Read more >
The coronavirus pandemic has led to an explosion of new words and phrases, both in English and in other languages. We have written about the new lexicon, and how it ... Read more >
Neologisms related to the coronavirus pandemic are spreading so fast that it is hard to keep up and our article on this topic of March 25 is already out ... Read more >
Tired of the corona infodemic and endless doomscrolling? Take a break, join a covideoparty and chill out with a quarantini ...🍸 New words and phrases such as these are popping ... Read more >
Molly Young is the literary critic for New York magazine and a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine. In a recent article about corporatespeak she provides interesting insights about ... Read more >
Apostrophes are said to date back to the early 16th century and originally served to signal that something had been removed from a word. During the 17th and 18th centuries ... Read more >
People across China have been very creative in past weeks in finding ways to get around the ban on an article that was critical of how the government handled the coronavirus ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
Attempts to create an "interslavic" language date as far back as the 17th century. The current version of Interslavic, or Medžuslovjanski, was established in 2017, and was the fruit of the merging of the Slovianski ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
Mandarin Chinese comprises around 370, 000 words, more than double the number of words in the Oxford English dictionary, and almost three times those in French and Russian dictionaries. “Reci”, literally translated as “hot words” are ... Read more >