Williamson Found Its Mark: New Data on Functional Claim Language, 1976-2026
by Dennis Crouch Twelve years ago I posted a chart on Patently-O tracking three patterns of functional claim language across ...
Friday, May 29, 2026
Tag: language
MPs and university leaders crowned winners of 2026 Duolingo Language Challenge
The annual initiative, organised by Duolingo in partnership with the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Modern Languages, saw participants collectively studying ...
The loneliest sentence in the English language isn’t ‘I’m alone’ — it’s ‘never mind, it doesn’t matter’
Why we swallow our words When someone says “never mind, it doesn’t matter,” they’re rarely talking about the topic itself. ...
I’m 66 and my adult son sent me a text last Sunday that just said “thinking of you, hope your weekend is nice” — and I read it four times trying to understand why it had landed so hard — and I finally realized it was because he wasn’t asking me for anything, he was just reaching, and I’d apparently reached a point in my life where being reached for without purpose felt like receiving a gift in a language I’d forgotten I spoke
I was sitting at the kitchen table Sunday afternoon, second cup of coffee going cold, when my phone buzzed. A ...
9 cognitive habits people develop when they grew up bilingual that have nothing to do with language and everything to do with how their brain learned to hold two realities at once
Bilingualism can delay the onset of Alzheimer’s disease by up to five years compared to monolingual adults. That statistic alone ...
Crypto Leaders Call Stablecoin Yield Text Language in CLARITY Act as “Restrictive”
Crypto industry leaders review the first detailed look at new legislative language governing stablecoin yields and rewards in the Digital ...
Nobody talks about the specific exhaustion of being the family member who translates between everyone else — the one who calls after every argument to explain what your sister actually meant, what dad was really trying to say, what your mother needs but won’t ask for — and the day you stop translating is the day the whole family loses a language it never knew it was speaking
Add Silicon Canals to your Google News feed. I was twenty-three when I first realized I’d become my family’s unofficial ...
Memorable Candidates Use Concrete Language
PeopleImages/Shutterstock The words you choose to advance your career matter, especially with more candidates relying on artificial intelligence to sharpen ...
Psychology says the reason your father never told you he was proud of you isn’t that he wasn’t — it’s that his generation was taught that providing was the language of love, and he said it every day in ways you weren’t listening for
Add Silicon Canals to your Google News feed. My dad is 67 years old. He’s run the same small business ...
10 common body language mistakes that make you look less confident than you actually are
Picture this: I’m at a networking event, feeling pretty good about myself. I’ve prepared my talking points, dressed professionally, and ...
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