blog posts Txtng blamed for decline of French May 30, 2008 12:17 am3684 views Bees do it: bilingual bees teach humans a lesson Jun 8, 2008 12:45 am5198 views Another of Maryland's English-speaking towns poised (from the French) to go English-only Jun 19, 2008 4:15 pm946 views French Academy sees linguistic diversity endangering national identity Jun 20, 2008 10:45 pm2683 views Supreme Court rules that guns don't kill people; throwing out DC gun law, Scalia finds that linguists are mad hatters living on the other side of the looking glass Jun 28, 2008 12:37 am2026 views Louisiana school district may require English-only valedictory addresses -- why not call them bye-bye speeches instead, to avoid all foreign-language entanglements? Jul 1, 2008 10:15 pm2257 views A million English words, or only 600,000? Either way, it's a language packed with more words than you'll ever need Jul 8, 2008 9:30 pm8063 views English no longer the official language of New York's gas stations Jul 11, 2008 11:33 pm1092 views Canadian language police prepare for unrest as 200 attend Esperanto Congress in Montreal Jul 17, 2008 8:56 pm1872 views Driving while Spanish nets trucker $500 fine Jul 19, 2008 1:00 am5217 views Obama supports foreign languages and has a foreign-sounding name; but as politicians go, that's not so unusual Jul 24, 2008 2:45 am1980 views Protecting English one beer at a time, or, how do you say 'Bud Light' in Flemish? Jul 28, 2008 12:10 am3177 views Defending the language with bullets: If you can read this in English, thank a soldier Jul 31, 2008 11:00 pm31330 views British academic acts to decriminalize bad spelling Aug 8, 2008 1:15 am1217 views Afghan government reaches impasse: can't decide whether to use the Pashtu or the Dari word for 'university' Aug 12, 2008 11:15 pm2220 views 'Talking while Spanish' on trial in Wichita Aug 15, 2008 11:30 pm1389 views Court rules 'Talking while Spanish' grounds for expulsion at Kansas school Aug 16, 2008 8:30 pm2458 views It's 3 a.m. and someone is texting the White House . . . Aug 23, 2008 11:17 pm986 views LPGA to golfers: speak English or get off the tour Aug 28, 2008 11:45 pm1203 views English, brought to you tonight by the Republican Party Sep 6, 2008 1:30 pm1159 views Pig-gate: any way you spin it, lipstick on a pig is politics as usual Sep 10, 2008 10:45 pm1427 views Correcting other people's English leads to conviction on federal conspiracy charges Sep 21, 2008 10:30 pm2180 views Words don't lie: semantic mapping of presidential debate shows what's really on candidates' minds Sep 28, 2008 12:51 am1259 views Words don't lie, part II: Perception Analyzer reveals no Jack Kennedys at vice presidential debate Oct 2, 2008 11:15 pm1029 views Words don't lie, part III: Campaign rhetoric gives way to campaign linguistics Oct 8, 2008 10:27 pm891 views Guilt by association: My Sarah Palin number is 2. Does that mean I palled around with terrorists? Oct 13, 2008 9:43 pm881 views Noah Webster at 250: a visionary or a crackpot? After all, he brought us ax and plow, but also deef and bridegoom Oct 15, 2008 12:47 am4082 views Words don't lie, part IV: Candidates debate role of plumbers in the White House Oct 16, 2008 1:00 pm3213 views The semantics of politics: defining the real "real" America Oct 22, 2008 11:30 pm847 views Noah the Lexicographer finds Republican candidates' words lack . . . definition Oct 29, 2008 11:15 pm860 views Small Latin and less Greek were good enough for Shakespeare, but some Brits want to rid English of its classical roots Nov 10, 2008 11:00 pm1648 views High Court to decide whether F-bomb is ready for prime time Nov 13, 2008 11:06 pm871 views Should Barack Obama, the first digital president, have to give up Twitter? Nov 16, 2008 7:35 pm770 views Criminalizing cyberspace: from Myanmar to California, going digital can mean going to jail Nov 24, 2008 11:15 pm814 views Beyond the Pale: White House Hanukkah invite is actually Christmas card Nov 26, 2008 9:30 pm883 views The word of the year for 2008 is Obama Nov 29, 2008 2:25 am2033 views Did indicted Illinois ex-governor skip the online ethics training that he mandated for all state employees? Dec 10, 2008 1:30 am3702 views New military strategy: if GI's won't learn their verbs, try teaching linguists to shoot Dec 25, 2008 7:45 pm1123 views Top 10 Language Stories of 2008 Jan 1, 2009 3:15 pm2184 views Pentagon tells soldiers, "We have ways of making you talk" Jan 7, 2009 11:20 am721 views Eliminating masculine pronouns, Congressional old boys network goes gender-neutral Jan 9, 2009 11:15 pm7565 views Read all about it: Reading on the rise as economy falters Jan 13, 2009 5:45 pm1952 views Strict constructionist Chief Justice flubs oath, Obama presidency survives unscathed Jan 21, 2009 12:06 am1439 views Should we fear a world without books? Jan 26, 2009 9:49 pm2756 views New Jersey High School bans foreign languages, then eats its words Feb 6, 2009 10:00 pm6124 views Lincoln the writer at 200: the statesman and orator constantly revised his prose Feb 12, 2009 2:46 pm1113 views U.S. refuses to participate in International Mother Language Day until it's celebrated only in English Feb 21, 2009 12:30 am3465 views English may run out of words Feb 26, 2009 7:45 pm1459 views British scientists warn, if Facebook doesn't kill you, it'll drive you nuts Feb 28, 2009 11:15 pm4482 views Iowa, "the English-only State," suspends student for refusing English proficiency test Mar 6, 2009 10:59 pm1823 views