Where did this disregard, or at least disinterest, in our language begin? Part of me blames schools. I come from a family of teachers, and I admire them more than any other public servant. But as much ...

Thirty-five years ago, Georgetown University linguistics professor Deborah Tannen stepped into the public consciousness with her groundbreaking 1990 book, You Just Don’t Understand. This runaway ...

Proto-Sapiens refers to a theoretical common language spoken by the earliest humans. Discover how scientists and linguists reconstruct what we may have sounded like tens of thousands of years ago.