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This New Translator Technology Could Change Everything

For most of us, trying out the lingo while on vacation is a bit of a struggle. At best you’re met with sympathetic looks from locals; worst case scenario, it’s grounds for ejecting you from your hotel when you tell the concierge you’re “horny” instead of “hot.” For the linguistically

Tweets Confirm Canadians Are More Polite and Upbeat Than Americans

Common belief dictates that Canadians are more polite and positive than their neighbours to the South. “It’s just the feeling I get,” our European or Asian or African or Australian or South American or Caribbean friends will tell us. But can you quantify that feeling? A pair of linguists from McMaster University attempted

20 Words and Phrases We Want to Abolish in 2016

Over the past few years the English language has been hijacked by a California bachelorette party at the pre-drink for a Drake (sorry, #drizzy) concert. And in 2016, it’s up to us to put an end to it. So as we desperately wish for the kids to get off our lawn,