A picture may be worth a thousand words, but how many numbers is a word worth? The question may sound silly, but it happens to be the foundation that underlies large language models, or LLMs — and ...

I was doing a podcast the other day, and the interviewer inquired, “You use ‘justification’ a lot and often in ways I have not heard it used. Can you help our listeners by explaining what you mean by ...

Below are 12 Shakespearean words that quietly changed their meaning over the last few centuries. In Shakespeare's time, ...

Children learn language effortlessly and completely voluntarily. They learn new words miraculously fast. A teenager masters about 60,000 words of their mother tongue by the time they finish high ...

Some time ago, I fell into conversation with a colleague about what we had been reading lately, and the person suggested that I absolutely must give Henry James’s “The Ambassadors” a try. The pandemic ...

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Has American society ever been in less basic agreement on what so many important words actually mean? Terms we use daily mean such different things to different people that communication is often ...

From parasocial bonds to rage bait and AI slop, the words that defined 2025 reveal how attention, emotion and connection are ...