Computer systems are getting quite good at understanding what people say, but they also have some major weak spots. Among them is the fact that they have trouble with words that have multiple or ...

Ann Friedman, 67, is founder and chief executive of Planet Word, an interactive museum of words and language that opened in 2020 in downtown D.C. She lives in Bethesda with her husband. So how did the ...

This summer I’ve been learning Tamil. Not only is it the primary language spoken in Tamil Nadu, a state in Southern India, it’s my mother tongue — a language everybody else in my family speaks.