It happened the first time over dinner. I was saying something to my husband, who grew up in Paris where…
Language
My earliest relationship with language was defined by rules. As an immigrant who came to this country from Peru at…
Language constructors for the movies started with words Frank Herbert made up for his 1965 novel but went much further,…
A poet, publisher and professor, she channeled the revolutionary spirit and deconstructionist currents of the 1960s to challenge the conventions…
Nearly 400 years ago, Walloon-speaking religious refugees from near what is today roughly the French-Belgian border arrived in a Lenape-speaking…
Late last month, Merriam-Webster shared the news on Instagram that it’s OK to end a sentence with a preposition. Hats…
The News Credit...Jessica Kourkounis for The New York TimesAccording to new research, “technoference” is real. Toddlers who are exposed to…
LANGUAGE CITY: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York, by Ross Perlin “Up on the sixth floor…
Some months ago, one of my readers sent me an invaluable cache of recordings of family members during therapy sessions…
As a boy, Blas Omar Jaime spent many afternoons learning about his ancestors. Over yerba mate and torta fritas, his…