April 2021

I am a cosmopolitan with no roots, so we are moving the family to Spain for a year. The kids are ready for it. Growing up with English speaking parents in Paris, they speak French and English, and once you know one Romance language…

A word that was coined in central New York was added to the dictionary - for Words With Friends, that is.Mobile game company Zynga, Inc., announced Monday that it has added "orbisculate" to the in-game dictionary for its popular word game,…

SAN FRANCISCO - (COMMERCIAL THREAD)--Today, Zynga Inc. (Nasdaq: ZNGA), a global leader in interactive entertainment, announced that it has officially added the word "orbisculate" to the in-game dictionary of its hit mobile game,…

Trying to explain the feeling of you are beautiful, the narrator recalls how the French literary critic Roland Barthes described “strange signs and sounds” and “communication problems…

The teacher: a neat, graying beard, clear eyes, a loving, determined husband and father. The doctor: shaggy beard; often crazy eyes; plagued by terrible memories, hallucinations and guilt. The two men's parallel stories -…

Multilingual people have trained their brains to learn languages, making it easier to pick up new languages ​​after mastering a second or third. In addition to debunking the seemingly Herculean genius of multilinguals, the researchers say…