I'm a parent and teach writing. Watching my kids adopt new slang gives me a window into how expressions go viral, burn out, ...

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In this essay, Antony Arul Valan examines how R.K. Narayan’s Malgudi embeds caste hierarchies in everyday language rather ...

"Enduring peace is born of compassion and respect; it is born of patience, of attention to the other, of the conviction that ...

In the translation of spoken slang to the written word, half the battle is figuring out the proper spelling. Slang, after all, is intentionally improper, at least compared to the King's English.

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