we'll explore what metaphors are, why they work, their different types, and how you can use them to create more powerful and ...

Western University's Frank Boers explains why idioms can cause even fluent english speakers trouble with communicating and understanding.

(MENAFN- The Conversation) Being a linguist - and someone who has tried to learn several languages (including English) in addition to my mother tongue (Flemish Dutch) - I have an annoying habit: ...

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Ask him how it all began, and he remembers the ice. It was a bitter morning in January, 1982, when Bernard Cathomas, aged thirty-six, carefully picked his way up a slippery, sloping Zurich street. His ...

Speaking more than one language can slow down the brain's aging and lower risks linked to accelerated aging. In a new study, researchers analyzed the Biobehavioral Age Gap (BAG) —a person's biological ...

Speaking multiple languages could slow down brain ageing and help to prevent cognitive decline, a study of more than 80,000 people has found. The work, published in Nature Aging on 10 November, ...

Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since Aristotle, who wrote that humanity was “the animal that has language.” ...

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The technology is one of the strongest examples yet of how artificial intelligence can be used in a seamless, practical way to improve people’s lives. By Brian X. Chen Brian X. Chen is The Times’s ...

President Trump’s decision to rename the Department of Defense the Department of War might strike skeptics as a silly distraction, and supporters as a brilliant rebranding. Historians may see it in ...