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Generative AI usage advertising comes with its legal implications
Generative AI has brought significant advancements to the advertising sector, reshaping content cre…
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'None of us is' or 'none of us are'? When Nicole Kidman's character in HBO's 'The Undoing' got grammar-checked by her British mother-in-law
Those who stubbornly believe that "none" must always take a singular verb do so at the risk of utte…
Daniel McMahon
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Top 5 Android and iOS apps to improve your English vocabulary
These apps are free and easy to use while some have paid versions for more features and benefits…
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'Squid Game' is driving so much internet traffic in South Korea that a broadband provider is suing Netflix over usage costs
A South Korean internet provider says Netflix should pay usage fees for the explosive internet traf…
Hannah Towey
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Merriam-Webster added 455 new words to the dictionary, here are the oddest ones
The new additions, including whataboutism and FTW, are related to internet slang, the coronavirus p…
Emily Walsh
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How the world's leading authority on the English language used Google to write the most comprehensive treatment of English usage ever published
He was a snoot, and I'm a snoot, according to Wallace's definition - that was the bond between us. …
Daniel McMahon
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Brazil was one of Netflix's first international breakthroughs. But new app usage data suggests it's struggling to keep up growth.
SimilarWeb estimates average daily active users and other activity on apps and websites, such as th…
Ashley Rodriguez
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English is losing its status as the universal language of the Internet
Translation tools can help, however, and some experts believe machine learning will make online tra…
Leanna Garfield
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The world's top grammarian fears that this punctuation error is becoming standard English
It's important to note that professional writers sometimes use comma splices for literary effect, s…
Daniel McMahon
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The 9 Most Controversial Rules In English Grammar
As for "this is she" versus "this is her," both are seen as acceptable things to say on the phone (…
Gus Lubin
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Here's How Foreign Language Speakers Typically Screw Up English
Finally, the algorithm uses the ESL-based similarity tree for prediction of typological features of…
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'Twerk' And 'Selfie' Are Now Official English Words In The Oxford Dictionary
Some of these words may sound unfamilar to the untrained eye. A phablet is a phone so large that it…
Caroline Moss
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A high school teacher's pledge to change the way he grades grammar is evidence of a dramatic shift in the English language
Decades ago, masculine pronouns could be used to refer to someone of either sex, like in the senten…
Mark Abadi
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Swiftkey aims to connect 100mn non-English speaking Indian users. Here’s how
As per the latest update, Karbonn Titanium Mach One Plus, which got released today, is the first sm…
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Google Sides With Traitors To The English Language Over Dictionary Definition Of 'Literally'
But recently, a civil war has raged between dictionary providers over whether the definition of "li…
Jim Edwards
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The 11 Most Common Grammatical Mistakes And How To Avoid Them
When considering whether to use "who" or "whom," you have to rearrange the sentence in your own hea…
Christina Sterbenz
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The Worst Possible Thing Happened To Google Today: A 'P0' Failure - Here's What That Means In Plain English
P0 Do not do anything else, this is a blocker. You can think of the Lancaster bomber flying ov…
Jim Edwards
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Duolingo put its sarcastic teen chatbot to work on its earnings call
The language-learning company kicked off its latest earnings call with a sarcastic chatbot who talk…
Shubhangi Goel
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I'm the CEO of a recruitment company. Here's how we can tell someone used AI on a job application.
Khyati Sundaram shares subtle indicators that an applicant used AI to write their job application, …
Tess Martinelli
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Planning to move to Bengaluru? Here's a reality-check on some myths you might have heard about the city
Bengaluru is often clouded by myths — about its eternal cool weather, sky-high costs, and tech-domi…