Category: Language and Languages

Tell Us About Your Strangest Terms of Endearment

The New York Times – Fashion & Style:
Do you have a surprising pet name for your loved ones? When you were young, were you called something bizarre? Tell us about it.
Leg Booty? Panoramic? Seggs? How TikTok Is Changing Language

The New York Times – Fashion & Style:
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.
Can Cultural Identity Be Defined by Food?

The New York Times – Travel:
Cuisine is one of the few ways to characterize Singapore’s Peranakan culture, a hard-to-pin-down blend of ethnic and racial identities.
Misinformation Swirls in Non-English Languages Ahead of Midterms

The New York Times – Business:
More multilingual fact-checking groups are pushing back against misleading translations, manipulated images and outright lies that jump platforms and cross borders.

Tell Us About Your Strangest Terms of Endearment