Elias Hirschl, author, spoken word artist, musician – and our new columnist – is very surprised by the battle cries of the self-appointed guardians of the German language. After all, it changes in one ...

The babel fish from "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" is becoming more and more realistic. Now Google is also bringing its real-time translator to Germany, which can translate spoken language ...

Europe’s linguistic landscape is shifting once again, and at the heart of this evolution are the Germanic languages, one of the continent’s most influential language families. From the North ...