Sometimes a dream succeeds in grabbing your attention through an image that turns out to be a play on words. In this example, ...

Hackers and evildoers are using adversarial poetry to jailbreak AI. The trick involves writing poems as prompts. AI ...

John Colet school in Belrose, a private primary school on the northern beaches, has recorded some of the best writing scores ...

For some people, love is not fully felt until it is put into words. Words of affirmation, as a love language, fill that gap by turning quiet care into something real and noticeable. This love language ...

I welcome your editorial (‘Welsh template has to be the goal for Irish language growth’, Irish Independent, March 2) about the current state of the Irish language. I would go further than “Seachtain ...

Hit the sack, hold your horses, once in a blue moon and when pigs fly. What do all these strange turns of phrase have in common? They are all idioms. An idiom is an expression that is commonly ...

Abstract: This paper analyzes the problem of figurative language detection on social media, with a focus on the use of semantic features for identifying irony and sarcasm. Framester, a novel resource ...

Cave paintings offer an invaluable insight into the lives and minds of early humans. Experts, working in Borneo, Indonesia have made a potentially historic discovery in a remote karst cave system.

Have you ever heard someone describe their day as “a nightmare” or said that someone has a “heart of gold”? These aren’t literal descriptions—they’re metaphors, one of the most powerful tools in the ...

COLUMBIA — A Missouri appeals court in Kansas City has rewritten the ballot language for an amendment that would ban most abortions again in the state, ruling that the language approved by a Cole ...