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From the Andes to the Big Apple, Keeping an Indigenous Language Alive: Q&A with the Quechua Collective

With up to about 10 million speakers, Quechua (also known as Runasimi, or “people’s language”) is the most widely spoken Indigenous language of the Americas, and it is an official…

What Makes a Great Love Song?

“The Love Song is the noise of love itself.” — Nick Cave, Australian musician (from a lecture delivered at the Atelierhaus der Akademie der Bildenden Kunste, Vienna on September 25,…

Message from the Founder: Or Is It?

I’m barely competent with technology and frequently beseeching my daughters or tech-savvy young people for assistance with what I think are my computer’s “bugs.” It’s demeaning to feel so powerless…

Words of the Year 2022

At Planet Word, we strive to make the museum experience fun, playful, unexpected, motivational, meaningful, and inclusive, and each of our galleries brings words and language to life in different…

From the Founder: Prison Reading

So the latest financial outlaw and crypto-currency-exchange fraudster, Sam Bankman-Fried, was quoted in an interview prior to his downfall and arrest as proclaiming “I would never read a book.” Who…

From the Founder: Words and Actions

Planet Word was intended to be place where people would have fun with language, a joyful place where people would come together to use their words, that shined a spotlight…