One of the first tasks I undertook in South Korea was proofreading English versions of speeches by Korean business leaders. Many of these speeches frequently included four-character phrases that were ...

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Oxford, producer of the famous dictionary and expert in languages, has selected the internet slang "rage bait" as the word of the year. It means "online content deliberately designed to elicit anger ...

Two new studies published in the journals Neuron00792-5) and Naturereveal how the human brain transforms a continuous stream of sound into distinct words. The findings identify a specific neural ...

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Oxford’s language experts, who are the brains behind the Oxford English Dictionary, defined rage bait as “online content ...

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