CodeWords

Katelyn's blog about the intersection of science, math, and language

Category: Linguistics

  • What I Learned from a Spelling Bee Master

    In the article “Opinion: I won the National Spelling Bee. This is what it takes to master spelling,” in the Washington Post, Dev Shah writes about how he won the Scripps National spelling Bee by learning how to guess based on certain roots and patterns. His knowledge of Latin, Greek, and other languages plus his understanding…

  • Language of Animals

    In the article “Humans May Be Shockingly Close to Decoding the Language of Animals” by Tim Newcomb, published in Popular Mechanics on January 27, 2023, the author writes about people’s attempts to communicate with animals using AI. I think this technology has a lot of potential to change things in a positive way. Being able…