Vijay Hashia vijayhashia@hotmail.com Why do English speakers “bite the bullet,” when they are not anywhere near a battlefield ...

THE difference between English and American practice in the use of some of our commonest words is an interesting study, on which much has been written. There is one aspect of this subject, however, ...

The French philosopher Gilles Deleuze is renowned for his innovative and creative thinking, making his works both challenging and enriching. In The Logic of Sense, first published in 1969, he explores ...

A sentence must never be interpreted out of context, as any scholar knows. It is pointless, furthermore, to suggest that separate sentences are true out of a context of linguistic and nonlinguistic ...

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, ...

In the glitzy world of tech, OpenAI’s ChatGPT is undoubtedly stealing the limelight. This A.I. dynamo boasts impressive feats in language generation. But while it might wow with its wordplay, it can ...

Generative AI using large-scale language models such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok respond appropriately to user words just like a human. However, there is a big difference between how large-scale ...

Traditionally the relation between philosophy and religion has been one either of identity, as in the early Middle Ages, or of hostility, as in the Age of Reason. In the eighteenth and nineteenth ...