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Expect Labs is a technology company based in San Francisco that is building a platform designed to reinvent how we have conversations. We are the creator of the iPad app called MindMeld, which is the first voice and video calling app that can actually understand conversations in real-time to make it easy to find and share related information as you talk.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 401 )
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The Story of "All Intents & Purposes"
Click here for the dynamic version. For all intents and purposes, here is a short history of one of the most commonly misquoted expressions to ever grace the... Read more
Posted on 27 August 2013 LANGUAGES, TECH -
An Alphabet of Onomatopoeias
Onomatopoeias are words that sound like the objects they describe or the sounds those objects make.... Read more
Posted on 26 August 2013 LANGUAGES, TECH -
The Rise Of... Ellipses
Why do we use ellipses so much? Ellipses are primarily employed to replace filler words like “um,” and their increased usage in written communications is... Read more
Posted on 23 August 2013 LANGUAGES, TECH -
What Kinds of Words Make up The Beatles’ Abbey Road Album?...
5 notes August 22, 2013 What kinds of words make up The Beatles’ Abbey Road album? The infographic above was created from a corpus... Read more
Posted on 22 August 2013 LANGUAGES, TECH -
Vote for Expect Labs' SXSW Sessions!
Bring us one step closer to SXSW glory and cast your vote for two panels featuring Expect Labs CEO, Tim Tuttle: Why the Star Trek Computer is Not That Far Off:... Read more
Posted on 21 August 2013 LANGUAGES, TECH -
The Serious Language of Comics
There is significance in even the most comical of things. The Lexicon of Comicana, published in 1980 by cartoonist Mort Walker, explains the importance of... Read more
Posted on 20 August 2013 LANGUAGES, TECH -
The Future of Tablets
Where are tablets headed? Forrester Research recently published an update to their tablet forecast that details what the tablet market will look like in the nex... Read more
Posted on 19 August 2013 LANGUAGES, TECH -
Conceptual Artist Micah Lexier Uses Language as His Medium. The...
12 notes August 16, 2013 Conceptual artist Micah Lexier uses language as his medium. The pieces above from his “Letters and Words” exhibit... Read more
Posted on 16 August 2013 LANGUAGES, TECH -
The Reason We Say "Please" & "Thank You"
Saying “please” and “thank you” is what most people believe to be the true mark of a civilized society. But how did these pleasantries come into practice? Read more
Posted on 15 August 2013 LANGUAGES, TECH -
How "Artisan" Lost Its Meaning
How can a word lose its hip factor? Grub Street New York charts how the word “artisan” became "irredeemably passé." (via Grub Read more
Posted on 14 August 2013 LANGUAGES, TECH -
How English is Changing
The biggest linguistic developments usually happen right under our noses. Below are four nearly imperceptible changes that are happening to English as we... Read more
Posted on 14 August 2013 LANGUAGES, TECH -
Thanks to Forensic Linguistics, J.K. Rowling Was Recently...
33 notes August 13, 2013 Thanks to forensic linguistics, J.K. Rowling was recently revealed as the author of the crime novel, The Cuckoo’s... Read more
Posted on 13 August 2013 LANGUAGES, TECH -
When Symbols Turn into Words
How did the word “heart” get turned into a synonym for liking something? Some say the symbol first entered our vernacular during Milton Glaser’s “I Love New... Read more
Posted on 12 August 2013 LANGUAGES, TECH -
The Effect of Altitude on Language
How do specific sounds become part of a language? A recent study finds that geography may play an important role in shaping the sound systems of certain... Read more
Posted on 09 August 2013 LANGUAGES, TECH -
"I’ve Never Seen Color and I Don’t Know What Color Looks Like. I...
16 notes August 8, 2013 "I’ve never seen color and I don’t know what color looks like. I come from a grayscale world." Neil Harbisson is a... Read more
Posted on 08 August 2013 LANGUAGES, TECH -
Annoying Speech Habits to Avoid
Everyone exhibits annoying speech habits at some time or another. Professional speaker Jeff Haden outlined a few favorite (least favorite) speech quirks one... Read more
Posted on 07 August 2013 LANGUAGES, TECH -
Where "OK" Comes From
How did “OK" become the indispensable expression it is today? According to historians, the term originated from an 1839 abbreviation for “all correct,”... Read more
Posted on 06 August 2013 LANGUAGES, TECH -
A Flowchart for Those Moments When You Can’t Decide...
30 notes August 5, 2013 A flowchart for those moments when you can’t decide whether to call, text, email, or send smoke signals. (via Wendy... Read more
Posted on 05 August 2013 LANGUAGES, TECH -
When Place Names Get Anglicized: How LA Says 'Los Feliz'
We’ve all sped through difficult-to-pronounce place names, secretly wishing no one will stop us to judge. This kind of pronunciation anxiety is reaching a... Read more
Posted on 02 August 2013 LANGUAGES, TECH -
Strawberry Fields & Word Associations
When someone says “strawberry," do you immediately think of “fields?" There are linguistic and psychological patterns that explain why we match certain words... Read more
Posted on 01 August 2013 LANGUAGES, TECH