When shopping for a new TV or home theater component, you might be bombarded with complex lingo and terminology that can be confusing. One confusing concept is video resolution: How do you know ...

The M EV1 is, perhaps, the exception that proves the rule, in the sense that by not conforming the existing pattern it helps clarify the pattern that otherwise exists. Photo: Richard Butler The very ...

Medical language can sometimes stump patients. And some common sayings are straight-up head-scratchers. Calling a patient’s neurological exam “grossly intact,” for example, might not sound so great, ...

In content marketing and in journalism, the word jargon has come to be used mostly as an insult. It's a label that people put on unfamiliar language they dismiss as gibberish. Jargon has another ...

One of the challenges of starting a new job is learning all the lingo, acronyms, and terminology specific to the workplace, and the industry as a whole. While much of that can’t be avoided, many ...

The next time you feel the need to reach out, touch base, shift a paradigm, leverage a best practice or join a tiger team, by all means do it. Just don’t say you’re doing it. If you have to ask why, ...

Much has been said about the remarkable ability humans have to extract meaning from language. That ability is remarkable indeed. In a split second, we perceive a spoken or written word and immediately ...

There is no question that my love of language is an inherited trait. My father was a lay linguist, in addition to being a teacher, writer, and public intellectual. In the last few years of his life, ...

Regional and state-specific slang is a large part of American culture. You can say the same thing in four different states, and it’ll mean four different things. The Pacific Northwest is often left ...

Top Boy, the UK-based crime drama, has returned to Netflix for its third and final season. Set in and around Summerhouse, a fictional estate in Hackney, London, where drug dealers, gang lords and ...