blog posts Sorry, Dr. House. Study correlates neat handwriting with academic success Nov 5, 2007 10:45 pm5675 views Washoe, chimp who learned sign language, dies at 42 without signing good-bye Nov 2, 2007 1:30 pm19955 views WTF? Swearing at work is good for business Oct 22, 2007 11:15 pm1867 views Vatican 2.2? Wichita Catholic School goes English-only Oct 21, 2007 11:30 pm2607 views Language is a facade. So is an official language. Oct 18, 2007 9:02 pm1181 views Spell the American way on National Dictionary Day Oct 16, 2007 11:57 pm3448 views Domo arigato, Dr. Roboto: Researchers prove rats can't understand Japanese backwards. Can you? Oct 6, 2007 1:43 pm1988 views George Bush hooked on phonics at U.N. (that's YOO-en) Sep 27, 2007 2:25 pm1889 views Japan's government politely lobbies to return English words Sep 23, 2007 11:48 pm2239 views The boy who spoke . . . Young muggle awakes from brain surgery with new accent Sep 19, 2007 12:05 am2928 views English-only vs. Spanish in Univision's presidential debate Sep 9, 2007 9:23 pm2391 views Siberian town bans "I don't know." Violators will be sent to . . . Siberia Sep 7, 2007 12:06 am1151 views Put a nickel on the drum, but no pesos. At the Salvation Army, it's all-English, all-the-time Aug 25, 2007 11:35 pm2203 views Poll shows 1 in 4 Americans don't read books. But books aren't everything . . . Aug 22, 2007 12:02 am2266 views Watching TV delays infant language, but don't touch that dial . . . Aug 14, 2007 10:44 pm2386 views Banning bitch and ho: If words are outlawed, only outlaws will have words Aug 8, 2007 1:08 pm3111 views High cost of English got you down? Speak Esperanto and save Jul 23, 2007 3:41 pm1832 views Monolingualism: the native language of intolerance? Jul 19, 2007 11:31 am3635 views What to name the baby? Forget grandma, hire a consultant Jul 15, 2007 12:05 am1963 views Bong Hits 4 Jesus: High Court rules that students who mention drugs are pushing them Jun 25, 2007 11:08 pm9484 views U.S. Army's latest slogan: We speak Farsi so you don't have to Jun 19, 2007 3:51 pm5028 views Presidential candidates: speaking Spanish now, but will they forget it after the test? Jun 18, 2007 5:47 pm2067 views The new voice of immigration reform: First speak English, then maybe we'll let you in Jun 17, 2007 4:35 pm1970 views Federal Appeals Court rules you can swear on the air, but only for the hell of it Jun 7, 2007 2:50 pm2506 views McDonald's tells Webster, "Take this McJob and shove it" Jun 7, 2007 2:05 pm1599 views Spelling counts at the Spelling Bee, but in the age of the Internet, should it count anywhere else? May 31, 2007 11:30 pm1346 views Bee Season: The annual spelling bee brings out protesters as well as nerds May 30, 2007 10:30 pm1710 views Army tells gay translators, don't tell, or don't translate May 25, 2007 1:15 pm1593 views CSI: Quebec -- Provincial tongue troopers on the trail of illegal English May 24, 2007 3:15 pm1449 views Don't show and tell: Army puts PR videos on YouTube while blocking the site on its own computers May 14, 2007 5:00 pm1089 views Language goes to war: Pentagon launches Language Corps May 13, 2007 10:15 pm1194 views From pencils to pixels, technologies won't fix our schools May 8, 2007 3:45 pm1086 views Hillary Clinton: Runs like a man, talks like a girl Apr 26, 2007 6:45 pm1851 views English makes you fat Apr 23, 2007 1:30 pm3309 views "Young chicken without sex": China bans Chinglish for Olympics Apr 12, 2007 6:45 pm5347 views For Gingrich, English is global, Spanish is ghetto. Apr 6, 2007 2:00 pm1429 views Google translates text untouched by human hands Mar 31, 2007 7:40 pm1092 views Guns and grammar: punctuation doesn't make meaning, people do Mar 13, 2007 11:26 pm1850 views Reinventing English: Why plain language isn't so simple Mar 9, 2007 12:12 am1426 views The N-word: on its way out? Mar 7, 2007 1:15 pm1514 views A modest proposal: Don't make English official, ban it instead Mar 2, 2007 9:45 am2995 views You can save this endangered language for only pennies a day; or you could let it die. Feb 25, 2007 2:45 pm1188 views The English Language Unity Act of 2007: It takes more than a language to unify a nation Feb 22, 2007 7:27 pm1277 views In the war against English, we won't be undersold Feb 16, 2007 3:59 pm1187 views A panda walks into a bar, or, why language self-help books help nobody Feb 14, 2007 5:52 pm1892 views French the most legal language, say the French Feb 9, 2007 11:45 am5147 views Joe Biden's Obama moment, or, I love it when you talk white to me Feb 6, 2007 11:00 pm3980 views Friendswood, Texas, may soon give residents the right to speak to town employees in English Feb 5, 2007 10:00 pm1261 views Spanish Pledge of Allegiance? Oy vey, can you see it's deja vu all over again? Feb 3, 2007 11:45 pm3776 views Pentagon declares foreign language a weapon. O.K., maggots, drop and give me 50 conjugations Jan 30, 2007 12:21 pm1359 views