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Tell Us About Your Strangest Terms of Endearment

Do you have a surprising pet name for your loved ones? When you were young, were you called something bizarre? Tell us about it.

By Miya Lee and Daniel Jones

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Leg Booty? Panoramic? Seggs? How TikTok Is Changing Language

A new vocabulary — a little fun, a little dystopian — has emerged on the social video platform, as creators try to get around algorithms and strict content moderation. They call it algospeak.

By Melina Delkic

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Can Cultural Identity Be Defined by Food?

Cuisine is one of the few ways to characterize Singapore’s Peranakan culture, a hard-to-pin-down blend of ethnic and racial identities.

By Ligaya Mishan and Esther Choi

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Misinformation Swirls in Non-English Languages Ahead of Midterms

More multilingual fact-checking groups are pushing back against misleading translations, manipulated images and outright lies that jump platforms and cross borders.

By Tiffany Hsu