From the Founder: Planet Word and Climate Change
Recently, a friend doing research on the effects of climate change on a variety of organizations asked me how climate change had affected Planet Word. At first, I thought there…
From the Founder: Disputes on the Language Front
In the lead-up to the U.S. presidential elections of 2020, it seemed like word usage and language were always in the news. What perfect timing for launching a museum of…
Balinese, Meet Wikipedia: Revitalizing a Local Language Online
Balinese has long been pushed to the linguistic margins. What can revitalize it for the next generation? Collaboration, flexibility, and wiki technology! So says Alissa Stern, who founded the BASAbali…
Hieroglyphs: Emojis of the Ancient World? Not Quite
Emojis and GIFs help us express our meaning in texts and emails, and they sometimes seem like languages of their own. Some people have wondered, then: are emojis the new hieroglyphs?…