Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. When we talked about “bizarro” words last week, we promised to talk this week about the difference between “colloquial ...

Before we look at your book selection, could you tell us what slang is? Slang is difficult because everything about it defies simple classification. Nobody knows the etymology of the word slang. If ...

Every year around this time, dictionaries across the English-speaking world announce their “Word of the Year”. These are expressions (some newly minted and some golden oldies too) that for some reason ...

A National Colloquial Language Convention will be held this October to sustain the vitality of community languages. The event, set for Oct 15 and 16, is expected to draw 300 linguists. National ...

Slang is probably as old as human language, though the first slang dictionaries only started popping up in the 16th century. But nothing has been a boon for slang lexicography like the digital age, as ...

Cosplay versions of Cheap (贱贱) and Fried (炸毛), characters from Chinese anime "Old Xian" 《Old先》 and "19 Days"《19天》that post-millennials like Defined as those born in China after 2000, of which the ...

BANGI, Nov 6 (Bernama) – The Ministry of National Unity (KPN) has proposed incorporating the study of colloquial language and local dialects as part of the language studies syllabus at higher ...

KLANG, June 6 (Bernama) -- The National Colloquial Language Convention, aimed at reaching a consensus to sustain the vitality of community languages, will be held on October 15 and 16 with the ...