blog posts It's time to ban the banned words list Jan 1, 2007 7:30 pm2162 views Illinois bans male pronoun Jan 2, 2007 8:16 pm2856 views Urban legend: don't end sentence with preposition Jan 4, 2007 9:19 am4631 views Another benefit of bilingualism: it delays dementia Jan 16, 2007 5:30 pm1203 views State threatens to close schools violating official language law Jan 18, 2007 10:29 pm1455 views Esperanto, the language that promises hope but doesn't deliver, celebrates 120th birthday Jan 20, 2007 8:35 pm5466 views National Handwriting Day -- a web-only special Jan 23, 2007 8:39 pm1266 views Semantic State of the Union Jan 24, 2007 12:25 am1168 views English must be protected from cheap foreign imports Jan 28, 2007 11:14 pm1132 views Pentagon declares foreign language a weapon. O.K., maggots, drop and give me 50 conjugations Jan 30, 2007 12:21 pm1353 views Spanish Pledge of Allegiance? Oy vey, can you see it's deja vu all over again? Feb 3, 2007 11:45 pm3744 views Friendswood, Texas, may soon give residents the right to speak to town employees in English Feb 5, 2007 10:00 pm1254 views Joe Biden's Obama moment, or, I love it when you talk white to me Feb 6, 2007 11:00 pm3443 views French the most legal language, say the French Feb 9, 2007 11:45 am5105 views A panda walks into a bar, or, why language self-help books help nobody Feb 14, 2007 5:52 pm1875 views In the war against English, we won't be undersold Feb 16, 2007 3:59 pm1187 views The English Language Unity Act of 2007: It takes more than a language to unify a nation Feb 22, 2007 7:27 pm1276 views You can save this endangered language for only pennies a day; or you could let it die. Feb 25, 2007 2:45 pm1185 views A modest proposal: Don't make English official, ban it instead Mar 2, 2007 9:45 am2987 views The N-word: on its way out? Mar 7, 2007 1:15 pm1505 views Reinventing English: Why plain language isn't so simple Mar 9, 2007 12:12 am1425 views Guns and grammar: punctuation doesn't make meaning, people do Mar 13, 2007 11:26 pm1846 views Google translates text untouched by human hands Mar 31, 2007 7:40 pm1091 views For Gingrich, English is global, Spanish is ghetto. Apr 6, 2007 2:00 pm1414 views "Young chicken without sex": China bans Chinglish for Olympics Apr 12, 2007 6:45 pm5343 views English makes you fat Apr 23, 2007 1:30 pm3239 views Hillary Clinton: Runs like a man, talks like a girl Apr 26, 2007 6:45 pm1851 views From pencils to pixels, technologies won't fix our schools May 8, 2007 3:45 pm1086 views Language goes to war: Pentagon launches Language Corps May 13, 2007 10:15 pm1194 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 CSI: Quebec -- Provincial tongue troopers on the trail of illegal English May 24, 2007 3:15 pm1449 views Army tells gay translators, don't tell, or don't translate May 25, 2007 1:15 pm1581 views Bee Season: The annual spelling bee brings out protesters as well as nerds May 30, 2007 10:30 pm1707 views Spelling counts at the Spelling Bee, but in the age of the Internet, should it count anywhere else? May 31, 2007 11:30 pm1343 views McDonald's tells Webster, "Take this McJob and shove it" Jun 7, 2007 2:05 pm1596 views Federal Appeals Court rules you can swear on the air, but only for the hell of it Jun 7, 2007 2:50 pm2424 views The new voice of immigration reform: First speak English, then maybe we'll let you in Jun 17, 2007 4:35 pm1969 views Presidential candidates: speaking Spanish now, but will they forget it after the test? Jun 18, 2007 5:47 pm2067 views U.S. Army's latest slogan: We speak Farsi so you don't have to Jun 19, 2007 3:51 pm5008 views Bong Hits 4 Jesus: High Court rules that students who mention drugs are pushing them Jun 25, 2007 11:08 pm9462 views What to name the baby? Forget grandma, hire a consultant Jul 15, 2007 12:05 am1963 views Monolingualism: the native language of intolerance? Jul 19, 2007 11:31 am3631 views High cost of English got you down? Speak Esperanto and save Jul 23, 2007 3:41 pm1830 views Banning bitch and ho: If words are outlawed, only outlaws will have words Aug 8, 2007 1:08 pm3107 views Watching TV delays infant language, but don't touch that dial . . . Aug 14, 2007 10:44 pm2383 views Poll shows 1 in 4 Americans don't read books. But books aren't everything . . . Aug 22, 2007 12:02 am2266 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 pm2194 views Siberian town bans "I don't know." Violators will be sent to . . . Siberia Sep 7, 2007 12:06 am1150 views English-only vs. Spanish in Univision's presidential debate Sep 9, 2007 9:23 pm2387 views The boy who spoke . . . Young muggle awakes from brain surgery with new accent Sep 19, 2007 12:05 am2924 views