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Songwriter, skater, actress and future linguist, Bella Javier.

People of OU: Songwriter, skater, actress and future linguist, Bella Javier

Rachel Yim, Science & Technology Reporter October 20, 2021

One shocking data point tells us that one language dies out every 14 days, making as many as half of the world’s 7,000 languages expected to be extinct by the end of this century. Every language deserves...

Cultivating culture: from ‘snowflake’ to ‘yeet’

Emily Morris, Managing Editor October 14, 2020

Budding colloquial phrases “low key” sprout “out of thin air” in every generation. Potentially elusive and non literal phrases aren’t just a confusing communication gap between generations, colloquialisms...

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