More than this, we made Google a transitive verb - "I googled it". That means I (the subject) used Google (the verb) to do something with it (the object). Pinker says the way we use words betrays the ...

As a linguist, I’ve lost count of how many times I have been asked what I think of the various language-learning apps. The truth is that I don’t use them. But of late I have been watching my daughter, ...