One king didn't just reform a language; he invented an entirely new alphabet in 1443, leaving behind detailed records that reveal the principles and purpose behind its cr…

Modern language evolution typically takes place gradually. This involves thinking about words fusing despite being so far ...
BBC

Knowing when to use formal or informal language

Speaker 1: We need to change how we speak depending on the situation and who we're speaking to. When we don't know people very well we need to use more formal language. Speaker 2: (TO OTHER PEOPLE) ...
Moviefone

The Deluge: Postscriptum

Despite the anti-Semitic campaign launched by the Polish People's Government in the late 1960s, director Jerzy Hoffman finishes working on the film Pan Wołodyjowski. It becomes the ticket to the ...

In 1973, Charles Geschke and John Warnock built page software that eventually led to the PDF files we use today

A persistent digital publishing challenge, ensuring documents appeared identically across all devices, spurred a significant ...
The Wire

'Hereness': A Dream That Withered on the Vine but Defies Erasure

In ‘Here Where We Live Is Our Country’, Molly Crabapple tells the story of a lost world. Rediscovering and reconnecting to ...