This article talks about a study of the effect of language used during debates and its effect on the polls. It was written right before the last of the 2016 presidential debates. "Linguist style matching" is a trick that linguists have studied, and it focuses on how candidates state their points, not what their points are.

This article connects the use of metaphor and language throughout the election, and how metaphors are often the phrases we remember throughout an election.

Due to the rising amount of female figures in this modern day, the local regional council of Sardinia, Italy has decided to ban all "sexist" language from official communication. This includes banning some traditional parts of the Italian language such as the different conjugations and distinctions between a profession based on gender (ie. consigliera instead of consigliere).

Recently, many immersion programs have opened up for older language learners and are allowing these learners to learn the language in the country of the origin of language. Learning a new language, while hard for older learners, is said to help keep the brain sharp. Learning the language on location seems to be helping these learners not only immerse themselves in the language they are learning but also the culture associated with the language.

This article is about a study that was published about the correlation between different language learning environments and the brain activity. The results of the study showed that the brain activity when speaking a language learned from an immersion based learning resembles the brain activity of a native speaker when they speak the language. The results go to show that immersion based learning may be a better environment for language learning.

This article is about a "new language" that was found in Northern Australia, and is a combination of English and the indigenous languages there. It reminds me a lot of the origin of Hawaii Creole English. The language is called Light Warlpiri, and approximately 300 people in a remote desert community in Northern Australia speak it.