A boy unearths a treasure trove of adjectives, and a strange word discovered by a scholar becomes an overnight sensation. From “A Chest Full of Words.”Credit...Rebecca Gugger and Simon Röthlisberger ...

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In the early 20th century linguist Benjamin Lee Whorf thrilled his contemporaries by noting that the Hopi language, spoken by Native American people in what is now Arizona, had no words or grammatical ...

A group of neuroscientists argue that our words are primarily for communicating, not for reasoning. By Carl Zimmer For thousands of years, philosophers have argued about the purpose of language. Plato ...

Salvador Ordorica is the CEO of The Spanish Group LLC, a first-class international translation service that translates over 90 languages. As the CEO of an emerging powerhouse in the international ...

Picture Lee Unkrich, one of Pixar’s most distinguished animators, as a seventh grader. He’s staring at an image of a train locomotive on the screen of his school’s first computer. Wow, he thinks. Some ...