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Cover Photo: The image shows various greeting cards ranging from birthdays to other occasions!
How to Love in English

If one loved in the Indian provinces, one could only love in English, with “I love you.”

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Sumana Roy
Jan 14, 2021
People | Culture | Language
Cover Photo: xiao long bao in a bamboo steamer
On Preserving Taiwanese Through Romanization

But was there a better way to put these pronunciations on the page?

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Grace Hwang Lynch
Oct 22, 2020
People | Culture | Language
Cover Photo: illustration of a multi-hued, rather surreal-looking landscape, with a row of three trees and mountains beyond, and a computer screen in the distance with a river running out of it—the scene is repeated infinitely in the computer screen
What Kind of Sonnets Will Computers Write?

If poetry is an act of discovery for a writer, then even a computational poem has to uncover something new.

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Katy Gero
Oct 21, 2020
Culture | Language
Cover Photo: An image of a groom on the left and a bride on the right. The bride in a white dress holds a flower bouquet. The sun shines from the back, and we do not see the two faces.
When Language Wears Boots

A daughter who is jia 嫁 is out of the house is gone forever, water poured out of a bucket, never whole, never yours again.

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Lavinia Liang
Mar 18, 2020
Culture | Language
Cover Photo: A photograph of Rain Queen Makobo Modjadji VI at her coronation in 2003, wearing gold jewelry and seated on an ornate chair
Can You Please Say Something in Khelobedu?

For me, Khelobedu is a language, a culture, home. For most South Africans, it doesn’t exist.

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Keletso Mopai
Nov 12, 2019
Culture | Language