This article argues that hashtags are artificial words based on their research of a collection of millions of New Zealand English tweets. Hashtags are a widespread feature of social media posts and used widely in search engines. Anything with the intent of attracting attention comes with a memorable hashtag like #BlackLivesMatter, #MeToo, and #COVID19. There are two main theories regarding the linguistic status of hashtags. One claims hashbrowns are like compound words. This is a way of making new words by gluing two or more words together. Another claims that hashtags are words that arise from a completely different process. Hashtagging is a much looser word-formation process with fewer restrictions. However, these researchers argue against both these conjectures. They suggest hashtags are written to look orthographically like words but their function is much broader and similar to keywords in a library catalogue or search engine. The researchers also created their own term, hybrid hashtags, meaning hashtags comprising one or more words from two distinct languages. Their example of hybrid hashtags included #kiaora4that and #letssharegoodtereostories which combined English and Maori, the indigenous language of New Zealand.

The author, a specialist and researcher in linguistics and discourse analysis, was interested in communication between individuals from different cultures. The misunderstandings it provokes are often based on unconscious reflexes and reference points which makes them all the more damaging. Communication between humans would be very difficult, if not impossible, without discursive memory. Our memories allow us to understand each other. Gregory Charles says in a tweet after the attack at the Grand Mosque in 2017, "Every nasty word we utter joins sentences, then paragraphs, pages and manifestos and ends up killing the world." This idea is defined by specialists in discourse analysis by theconcent of interdiscoursement. Not being aware of this discursive mechanism can cause many misunderstandings. Understanding it certainly helps to communicate better. Putting yourself in your audience's place is the key to good communication.

This study was conducted to understand why leading up to the infamous 2016 election, though Clinton was on the road winning, the pronouns "he" and "they" were being used instead of "she". This study first compares the 2016 election with the 2017 UK prime minister election. In surveys, when asked the questions such as, "The next U.S. president will be sworn into office in January 2017. After moving into the Oval Office, one of the first things that…" (those in the UK question were respective to their own situation). Most in the UK used the pronoun "she". However, though Clinton won the primary and was increasingly likely to win the election, "she" was at a plateau with the usage of "they" rising. Overall, I believe this article was extremely exciting and definitely makes you think!

This article reveals a new connection between stress and recurring heart attacks. As we get older, it is inevitable that our body will start to suffer from things like heart attacks. We know a lot of different ways to prevent heart attacks like limiting stress and staying healthy. However, sometimes things happen and if one did suffer from a heart attack, what you do after is extremely important. This study states that 5 years after a heart attack 80 out of 283 patients had another heart attack or a stroke and were hospitalized for heart failure or died. In addition, around 47% of the patients suffered from high distress, leading to the conclusion that high stress can result in later heart attacks. The article concludes with the advice of psychological assessments (especially among younger patients) after a heart attack to minimize distress.