Oxford Dictionaries's word of the year is intended to "reflect the passing year in language", with post-truth following the controversial choice last year of the "face with tears of joy" emoji.
We ran a series of themed puzzles at the end of 2018, marking the year in language, movies, music, politics, and literature, and we rounded up our favorite clues of the year.
After long hours spent on the Iranian desk at C.I.A. headquarters and nearly a year in language school learning Farsi, he felt that he was ready to put his training to use.
Such measures were taken due to the prevalent global financial and economic crisis and, most importantly, due to students who spent sometimes more than 1 year in language centers.
The past year in language has been closely tied to the speech patterns of the current president.
The Oxford Dictionaries' word of the year exists as a means of "reflect[ing] the passing year in language," which explains why last year's "word" was the "face with tears of joy" emoji.
At age 5, low-income children are more than two years behind in language development," said Darrell Steinberg, the state Senate's top Democrat.
"It brings together all our investments over the years in natural language understanding, deep learning, text to speech," he said.
He has described his new piece "Light Years" in the language of evolution and cosmology.
Philip Herter, who has been working for over 20 years in English language teaching, is one of Chen's teachers at the university.
