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Google | 100 Billion Words | 2019
The most translated words in the world are "How are you?", "Thank you", and "I love you." Google decided to show that with data.
ALWAYS | INTIMATE WORDS | 2015
If you don't have the words, you can't describe your symptoms. If you can't describe your symptoms, you can't get diagnosed. The indigenous women of Oaxaca had no words to talk about their own bodies.
MINISTRY OF TOURISM GOVT. OF INDIA | THE HINGLISH PROJECT | 2012
In India, mixing Hindi and English together into "Hinglish" is just a normal part of how people talk. So someone decided to turn that into a font.
COTY | FRENCH LESSON | 1978
This perfume ad for Coty L'Aimant won the Grand Prix at Cannes in 1978. Released with the line "Do you speak L'Aimant?", the film feels like a mirror reflecting how the British saw the French—and how they saw the French language and the culture of perfume.