Language barriers create a hidden but serious form of mobility exclusion, and the burden of adapting should fall on transit systems, not riders.
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Bubble, hoop, wiggle, bed: Some words bear an uncanny resemblance to the shape of the object or action they describe. And we tend to process them faster.
Negation-based language is cognitively ineffective. And when amplified by AI-generated writing it distorts how people engage with ideas.
New research reveals that when we outsource the effort of finding the right words, we strip our relationships of their value.
Seemingly meaningless adolescent slang isn’t “brain rot,” it’s linguistically normal, developmentally appropriate and a way of belonging.
Idioms are an often invisible barrier to understanding and inclusion for second-language speakers because their meanings rely on shared culture as well as language.
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PhD, Management, Lang School of Business and Economics, University of Guelph
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Professor and Canada Research Chair in Language Interactions, University of Manitoba
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Professor of Applied Linguistics, Western University
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Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Carleton University
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Human Geography, University of Toronto