How Families Develop Their Own Private Language (Gift Article)

“Familects” emerge out of in-jokes and mispronunciations, but they reveal something about how all language evolves.

nytimes.com

ChatGPT may be changing how you're writing

Various words and phrases have proliferated on the internet since ChatGPT's release.

sfgate.com

Jason Arday and the new politics of plagiarism

The resignation and death of the Cambridge professor is the latest chapter in a centuries-old struggle over originality and intellectual ownership – one intensified by the rise of generative AI.

theconversation.com

Opinion | We Need to Preserve Human Writing, Before It’s Too Late

In the age of AI, colleges must be custodians of the written word.

chronicle.com

Can Keeping a Journal Make You Happier?

Research on expressive writing suggests that it can be beneficial in a variety of surprising ways.

psychologytoday.com

Someone Used A.I. to Write an Unauthorized Biography of Me. I Don’t Recommend Reading It. (Gift Article)

Someone used A.I. to write my biography. Thousands more of those books are polluting Amazon. Who is behind all this drivel?

nytimes.com

The Most Famous AI Writing Tic Is Also the Most Mysterious

Why chatbots love “it’s not X, it’s Y”

theatlantic.com

The Triumph of Maxxing, a Suffix with a Superpower

"Looksmaxxing" seems to be everywhere—but where did it come from, and why has maxxing become so popular?

psychologytoday.com

Copycats

After writing for publication for nearly 70 years, I ask myself: Have I ever committed the sin of plagiarism? I hope I haven’t, but I shouldn’t be entirely shocked to

commentary.org

Humans vs. Bots — Who Does the Em Dash Better?

nytimes.com

Is Accent Bias the Last Acceptable Form of Prejudice?

Judging people based on how they speak is wrong—but also very common.

psychologytoday.com

Opinion | Do these words make you sound smarter? The bias is spreading.

English speakers love the Romance vocabulary. AI noticed.

wapo.st

A Whole Generation Seems to Be Using ‘POV’ Wrong

nytimes.com

America Has a Pangram Problem

AI-detection tools are getting better. But they still aren’t good enough.

theatlantic.com

I Mog, He Mogs, You Mog, We All Mog

nytimes.com

To ‘86’ occasionally means to kill but usually doesn’t: A linguistic investigation into the Instagram threat charge against James Comey

Does a seashell arrangement in the form of the numerals ‘86 47’ amount to a criminal threat to assassinate President Donald Trump, as prosecutors suggest?

theconversation.com

For a Certain Kind of Guy, Even a Diaper Bag Needs to Be ‘Tactical’

nytimes.com

The Paradox of Self-Plagiarism

As writers and artists age, they may start recycling their previous efforts. That's not necessarily a bad thing.

psychologytoday.com

Most people do not realize when a personal message they receive was written by AI, study finds

When people know someone used AI to write a message, they see the person as lazy or insincere.

theconversation.com

The Degendering of English

English is evolving into a gender-free language, but the rate and the scope of change have varied.

psychologytoday.com

Your sarcasm is showing — and its history is surprisingly violent

Some people use sarcasm jokingly. But funnily enough, we tend not to find it witty when we're on the receiving end.

npr.org

Is It Wrong to Write a Book with A.I.?

The horror novel “Shy Girl” was cancelled for being generated at least partly through artificial intelligence. Would we ever accept such a book as art?

newyorker.com

Opinion | What Trump Is Doing to the English Language

nytimes.com

Is it ‘Ih-ran’ or ‘E-ron’? Inside the politics of pronunciation

Both President Trump and Vice President Vance pronounce Iran as ‘Ih-RAN,’ not ‘Ih-RON.’ A linguist says that how the country’s name is pronounced may be a political choice.

theconversation.com

If using ChatGPT is cheating, what about ghostwriting? The old debate behind a new panic

Has our culture’s begrudging acceptance of ghostwriting paved the way for everyone – not just the rich and famous – to offload the hard work of writing?

theconversation.com

How Bad Is Plagiarism, Really?

From ancient Rome to the era of A.I., people have prized originality, but the line where influence ends and cribbing begins is notoriously blurry.

newyorker.com

Writer denies it, but publisher pulls horror novel after multiple allegations of AI use

One of the first controversies of its kind.

arstechnica.com

With AI finishing your sentences, what will happen to your unique voice on the page?

Chatbots tend to produce solid writing, but their prose largely reflects a single, uniform voice.

theconversation.com

How America Learned to Love Barnes & Noble Again

Anti-chain animus is receding.

theatlantic.com

The 1 Question to Ask Before Making a Sarcastic Comment

Sarcasm tends to unravel in certain situations and relationships.

time.com