There was a time recently when I had forgotten that perhaps I shouldn’t speak to others the same way that I do with my friends. Slang is often used as a way to form a special type of communication with a particular subset of people—and this is where concepts like ‘code-switching’ come from—where certain groups…
The Persian language, revered for its beautiful poetry and literature, has been revered for millennia and at times in history has even served as the language of culture in the wider Middle East region, as well as in Central and South Asia. It’s a language that today is primarily spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and…