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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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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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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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‘Bursting Proud’: Ireland Cheers Paul Mescal for Embracing Irish Language

On the red carpet for the British Academy Film Awards, the Oscar-nominated actor gave an interview in Ireland’s national language.

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American English Needs Immigrants

The immigration debate often centers on who should be welcomed into our country. Some even argue that multiculturalism dilutes our…

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Politics

Poem: [Dog Is a Way of Thinking]

Magdalena Zurawski’s intrepid use of caesura — a pause in a line of poetry — reinforces the theme of disciplined…

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How Can China’s People Demand Freedom if We Can’t Even Say It?

One morning last November, I woke up to a stirring sight: video clips of young protesters in several Chinese cities…

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