Tagged Languages

Could English soon decline as a global lingua franca?

West Side Story

Aug 24, 2017

Opinion, Policy, Science, World

Thanks to the wide expansion of the British Empire and the post-war rise of U.S. businesses, English has a pretty strong hold on the role of global lingua franca. American and British popular culture, in the fo...

Researchers find people use happier words more after analyzing billions of human words

Feb 10, 2015

A study conducted by researchers from the University of Vermont has indicated that "We use more happy words than sad words." Titled “Human Language Reveals a Universal Positivity Bias”, the study mined over 10,...