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This article examines different ways that casual racism is seen in our daily lives. Due to certain stereotypes engrained in our society, racism is often unintentional, and people don't understand the weight of their words.

Self affirmations have been seen to impact peoples' performance in sports. The self affirmation theory says that our sense of self worth can be affected by affirmations, especially when they are written out. If we don't affirm ourselves, we instead transition to defensive strategies of self deprecation.

Do animal whisperers really understand what animals are saying? This article explains that it takes more than just watching an animals behavior to understand them. It explains what animal whisperers do and even teaches the reader how to communicate with their animal.

A short article raising questions about why people mirror their texts and language styles to others. It discusses why certain people adjust speech/texts and who is more likely to make those changes.

This article goes in depth about the history of emojis and its effects in communication. For instance, how it can lead to ambiguity in conversation, how it's used in marketing, etc.

Teachers worried about students turning in essays written by a popular artificial intelligence chatbot now have a new tool of their own. Edward Tian, a 22-year-old senior at Princeton University, has built an app to detect whether text is written by ChatGPT, the viral chatbot that's sparked fears over its potential for unethical uses in academia. Tian, a computer science major who is minoring in journalism, spent part of his winter break creating GPTZero, which he said can "quickly and efficiently" decipher whether a human or ChatGPT authored an essay.

This article talks about how the new "Spanglish" invention provides an example of how language evolves. It gives examples of Spanglish phrases as well as explains how racism and language discrimination have caused people to perceive "Spanglish" as an incorrect use of language.

Emojis are emerging as a new form of communication online, mostly used by younger generations as a way to add emotional depth to online communications. A study conducted suggests that while older generations are less confident about using emojis, they are able to interpret them, and use them with minimal errors.

This article is a helpful guide that dives into everyday conversations and their connection to pragmatic linguistics. Pragmatic linguistics specifically focuses on social cues and aspects of language that such as meanings, norms, and nonverbal communication cues. This article is valuable for anyone looking to work on social and communicational skills, or wants to understand the language aspect of it.

Children worldwide are learning language and through a similarly structured context despite differing cultural settings. The study in this article compares mealtime conversations between parents and their young children across five various cultural settings to find a pattern of communicative interactions across cultures that were only adjusted to be consistent with one's norms and values, helping contribute to theories about language learning.

This article is about the positive and negative effects of technology on children, this talks specifically about statistics and how they can benefit and not benefit from technology use.

Ending your texts with a period is truly monstrous. We all know this. Grammar be darned, it just doesn't look friendly. Now a study has confirmed it. Researchers led by Binghamton University's Celia Klin report that text messages ending with a period are perceived as being less sincere, probably because the people sending them are heartless.

Thanks to Gabby Gonzales '24 for this site! Programmer Thomas Dimson, author of Instagram's original content-ranking algorithms, created this website which uses GPT-2 algorithm to generate words that sound like they should exist, but don't, along with definitions and examples. Example: downage (verb) dow·nage obtain or retain (something) at a reduced price "the team had to downage contracts after a series of sellout losses"

This article talks about how AI-generated texts can be distinguished from human writing. It explains why it is essential for us to tell them apart and why it is still not able to perfectly mimic humans.

This article discusses some of the ways AI-generated text can differ from sentences written by humans.

A mom to a child with autism wrote a children's book to demonstrate how her non-verbal son is able to communicate despite being unable to speak. Although many people with severe autism aren't able to verbally communicate, they are still able to communicate their thoughts through gestures, body language, and tablets. Tablets have become a voice for people with autism and allows them to show others that they are able to comprehend more than people realize. People with autism, especially children, face constant judgment and bullying. The hope is that this book will normalize and expose children to other children with autism.