Human language is structured to minimize mental effort by using familiar, predictive patterns grounded in lived experience.

Fluency lowers our guard, and when language becomes beautiful, both humans and machines stop asking hard questions.

Scholars have long contemplated the connection between language and thought—and to what degree the two are intertwined—by asking whether language is somehow an essential prerequisite for thinking.

Humans are storytelling beings. As far as we know, no other species has the capacity for language and ability to use it in endlessly creative ways. From our earliest days, we name and describe things.