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Home » Language

Tag: Language

an illustrated television with the Netflix logo and the word subtitles with a check mark next to it, all surrounded by a pink and purple glow
Posted inFilm

In defense of subtitles

by Janaya Greene May 12, 2022May 17, 2022

Those once-pestering words on the bottom of television screens I now see as an opportunity to refresh and expand my communication.

Posted inArts & Culture

LGBTQ Glossary

by S. Nicole Lane June 26, 2019August 18, 2021

From allosexual to zaza and zir, terms you won’t find in your Funk & Wagnalls

Posted inCity Life

Think you know your Chicago underworld slang?

by Jeff Nichols June 12, 2019August 18, 2021

A quiz on some of the less obvious entries in a 1967 police-training dictionary

Posted inMusic

Mnek finds the queer heart of R&B on Language

by Noah Berlatsky February 14, 2019August 18, 2021

One of an emerging generation of queer R&B artists, Mnek (pronounced em-en-EE-kay) takes an approach to his music that’s closer to mainstream radio pop than that of idiosyncratic performers such as Serpentwithfeet, Le1f, or even Frank Ocean. This has some downsides: on his 2018 album, Language (Virgin EMI), he defaults to pleasant but undistinguished balladry […]

Posted inBlogs

Justin Hayford’s apology for his Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner review

by Justin Hayford March 29, 2018August 18, 2021

“I could have conveyed the horror of the stage moment without quoting the word at all.”

Posted inBest of Chicago

Chicago’s diversity is legible on its signs

by Darryl Holliday June 23, 2016August 18, 2021

Signs speak to the character and composition of neighborhoods and communities.

Posted inBlogs

Ten things that would make Internet text “cool” again

by Asher Klein October 12, 2012August 19, 2021

Some half-baked ideas for making text more exciting on the Internet, or something. Danger! Web experts ONLY.

Posted inBlogs

“Mix tape” no more

by Miles Raymer July 10, 2012August 19, 2021

An update to the Reader style guide

Posted inBlogs

Ideological migration we can believe in

by Steve Bogira March 2, 2012August 19, 2021

A firm stance on ideological migration

Posted inReader

If I’d Known What You Were Up To, I Would’ve Shot You Down

by Heartbroker December 3, 2010August 19, 2021

I know you are but what am I? Stupid love! Love’s stupid.

Posted inBlogs

Chicago-based shopping site Language is no more

by Heather Kenny March 31, 2009August 19, 2021

Language, the Wicker Park boutique that went online-only a year ago, closes up shop completely.

Posted inBlogs

Lost in the tag clouds

by Whet Moser May 23, 2008August 19, 2021

Hillary Clinton, Bobby Kennedy, and the tag-cloud theory of mass communication.

Posted inBlogs

Size matters

by Harold Henderson August 1, 2007August 19, 2021

I can’t learn any more Mandarin today, my Heschl’s Gyrus is full.

Posted inBlogs

An exquisite sense of pain

by Harold Henderson February 28, 2007August 19, 2021

A new way of looking at pain.

Posted inBlogs

Are you a disabled American Indian, or a handicapped Native American?

by Harold Henderson August 14, 2006August 19, 2021

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but I just can’t get words out of my head.

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