When an exam board for England, Wales and Northern Ireland recently clarified that students are now permitted to use gender-inclusive or gender-neutral forms in French, Spanish and German exams, it ...

Welcome back to Monday Barf Bag. It’s only March, and already 2026 has yielded two long profiles attempting to investigate whatever the fuck is going on with Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.). Too bad Politico ...

From a descriptivist approach, there is no right or wrong; there just is. Prescriptivism, on the other hand, makes assertions about language as it “should be.” It sets out how language ought to be ...

This article was produced for the Observatory by the Independent Media Institute. Danica Tomber is an applied linguist with a master of arts in teaching English to speakers of other languages from ...

Jamie Lee Curtis has described the widespread use of plastic surgery and cosmetic procedures as generations of women getting 'disfigured.' “I’ve been very vocal about the genocide of a generation of ...

Eschler and Hurley, who worked with David Lynch on different seasons of Twin Peaks, recall the pleasures of collaborating with the great director: his infectious sense of wonder, his bold sonic tricks ...

The growing number of LGBTQ+ service members in the United States military has opened the discussion surrounding the use of different reference forms, including titles and pronouns, in the military.

So often linguists seem to be defending language errors simply because they're all 'woke'. In this video we look at prescriptivism and descriptivism, standards, language 'rules', arbitrariness and the ...

ALLAMA Muhammad Iqbal’s poetic genius has been acknowledged far and wide. But in his own days, especially early in his literary career, a constant campaign was run to mock and disparage him. Opponents ...

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With the advancement of technology, language change has gained a stronghold among the 21st century linguistic studies. Language change is generally fueled by diverse factors. Generation by generation, ...