Throughout history, women in rural Hunan Province used a coded script to express their most intimate thoughts to one another. Today, this once-“dead” language is making a comeback. China’s ...

Have you ever had a conversation with a colleague or manager that left you feeling slighted, even though you weren’t explicitly dismissed or insulted? Chances are you were on the receiving end of ...

“Did you understand what they just said?” Language is heard and resonates differently depending on who is communicating, with certain meanings masked in public space and deciphered only by those in ...

The coded language of floriography meant that Victorians could express affection, desire or disdain, allowing a society governed by strict etiquette to show its true feelings. Now the language of ...

As the 50-strong string orchestra started to play, Krust welled up. Until then this music had been trapped inside him. He knew what it was that he had wanted to say with this album – the pain, the joy ...

For most people who menstruate, discussion about the monthly cycle is coded – and there is a stigma attached to this natural process. This is most visibly in the wording on menstrual products. Peruse ...

During Monday night’s presidential debate, Republican Donald Trump talked about the number of shootings and murders in Chicago, portraying our city as a blighted and dangerous. We speak with WBEZ ...

2023-10-30T11:04:42-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/1a6/014/1698678383_014.jpgWe mere mortals clearly understood the dangerous code language that tRump uses ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — During the primaries, Donald Trump threw red-meat rhetoric to supporters, pledging to build a wall on the Mexico border and to ban Muslim immigrants. He even told at least one ...