In many Kenyan homes, a cough rarely goes unanswered. “Umekunywa dawa?” someone will ask — Have you taken medicine? But the “medicine” in question is rarely a pill. Often, it is a homemade blend of ...
Several years ago, my linguistic research team and I began developing a computational tool we call "Read-y Grammarian." Our goal was to reconstruct the highly fragmentary text of the Singapore Stone, ...