Artificial Intelligence and the Legal Field
Artificial Intelligence here to stay and will continue to have a lasting impact on all aspects of life—and the legal field is no exception.
linguistics
Book Review: Talking Back, Talking Black: Truths About America’s Lingua Franca by John McWhorter
Talking Back, Talking Black is a systematic and impassioned celebration of and commentary on Black English that elucidates and informs without ever feeling as though there is more of an agenda than that of increased understanding. Aside from the introduction, the book only contains five chapters, but each of them packs a punch as they […]
Book Review: Talk on the Wild Side by Lane Greene
With a subtitle like Why Language Can’t Be Tamed how could I possibly pass up on reading Talk on the Wild Side by Lane Greene? The linguist in me simply couldn’t resist, and my present self is particularly glad that I didn’t. Greene confesses in the text that he himself is not a professional linguist, […]
Why Names Have Power
[This is a guest post by Talia’s friend Annie, who is managing this blog while Talia is away at Middlebury Language Schools.] In his memoir, physicist Richard Feynman shares an anecdote about going birdwatching with his father as a child: One kid says to me, “See that bird? What kind of bird is that?” I […]