AI tools can parse through the massive archives of daily word puzzles to isolate specific throughlines that can serve as a guiding light when you're lost in the sea of scrambled letters. I used my New ...

A forgotten proposal from a Mysuru seminar reopens debate on whether Telugu, Kannada, Tamil and Malayalam can share a streamlined writing system ...

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We like to think we are the lead actors in our lives, but we’re often just reading lines from a shadow script written by our past selves.

When states in 2010 introduced the Common Core State Standards, which didn’t include cursive writing, most schools abandoned the flowy form of writing altogether. But cursive has begun making a ...

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On a frosty January afternoon at New York City’s Ripley-Grier Studios, Emily Saliers, Beth Malone and Starstruck’s director-choreographer Lorin Lotarro are together, deep in rehearsal—deeper still, in ...

And there are no foolproof tools that allow educators to suss out whether students have improperly used A.I. In response, many teachers and professors are rethinking what types of writing they assign ...

If not for the work of two scholars, Alice Kober and Michael Ventris, the ancient Greek script Linear B would likely still be a mystery.

February 21 is World Mother Language Day. Al Jazeera looks at the most spoken languages and which ones are endangered.

Synthesia is the most discussed avatar tool in education. You pick from 230+ avatars, type your script, and it generates a video with natural lip-syncing in 140+ languages. It can also convert ...

As manuscripts face threats from disaster and neglect, youth volunteers and heritage experts are working together to revive Nepal’s historical scripts.