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Blindspotting and the Gentrification of Language

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This Toy Commercial for a Presidential Version of Scrabble Has All the Best Words

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Rabbit Holes: Why I Procrastinate by Compiling My Own Niche Dictionaries

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Why Kids May Be the Key to Communicating With Alien Life

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All the Cool Lines From the New Trailer for the Upcoming Mark Wahlberg Movie Mile 22, Ranked by How Useful They Would Be to Integrate Into Your Daily Life

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Why Haven’t the Obituaries for Koko the Ape Talked About Her Purported Nipple Fetish?

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Why It’s Fair to Compare the Detention of Migrants to Concentration Camps

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The History of Going “Apes–t”

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We Are in a Linguistic Emergency When It Comes to Trump

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How to Tell a Realistic Fictional Language (Game of Thrones!) From a Terrible One (Star Wars!)

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Why Taking a Compliment Is Actually Trickier Than It Seems

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Trans Terminology Seems Like It’s Changing All the Time. And That’s a Good Thing.

Alex Myers

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Using They/Them to Avoid Misgendering People? It Could Do More Harm Than Good.

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NBA Player Curses in Salt Lake City; Utahns Can’t Believe Their Ears

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