blog posts Reinventing English: Why plain language isn't so simple Mar 9, 2007 12:12 am1448 views Guns and grammar: punctuation doesn't make meaning, people do Mar 13, 2007 11:26 pm1874 views Google translates text untouched by human hands Mar 31, 2007 7:40 pm1107 views For Gingrich, English is global, Spanish is ghetto. Apr 6, 2007 2:00 pm1500 views "Young chicken without sex": China bans Chinglish for Olympics Apr 12, 2007 6:45 pm5369 views English makes you fat Apr 23, 2007 1:30 pm3435 views Hillary Clinton: Runs like a man, talks like a girl Apr 26, 2007 6:45 pm1870 views From pencils to pixels, technologies won't fix our schools May 8, 2007 3:45 pm1104 views Language goes to war: Pentagon launches Language Corps May 13, 2007 10:15 pm1208 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 pm1115 views CSI: Quebec -- Provincial tongue troopers on the trail of illegal English May 24, 2007 3:15 pm1458 views Army tells gay translators, don't tell, or don't translate May 25, 2007 1:15 pm1635 views Bee Season: The annual spelling bee brings out protesters as well as nerds May 30, 2007 10:30 pm1743 views Spelling counts at the Spelling Bee, but in the age of the Internet, should it count anywhere else? May 31, 2007 11:30 pm1375 views McDonald's tells Webster, "Take this McJob and shove it" Jun 7, 2007 2:05 pm1641 views Federal Appeals Court rules you can swear on the air, but only for the hell of it Jun 7, 2007 2:50 pm2718 views The new voice of immigration reform: First speak English, then maybe we'll let you in Jun 17, 2007 4:35 pm1992 views Presidential candidates: speaking Spanish now, but will they forget it after the test? Jun 18, 2007 5:47 pm2090 views U.S. Army's latest slogan: We speak Farsi so you don't have to Jun 19, 2007 3:51 pm5097 views Bong Hits 4 Jesus: High Court rules that students who mention drugs are pushing them Jun 25, 2007 11:08 pm9602 views What to name the baby? Forget grandma, hire a consultant Jul 15, 2007 12:05 am1978 views Monolingualism: the native language of intolerance? Jul 19, 2007 11:31 am3738 views High cost of English got you down? Speak Esperanto and save Jul 23, 2007 3:41 pm1872 views Banning bitch and ho: If words are outlawed, only outlaws will have words Aug 8, 2007 1:08 pm3158 views Watching TV delays infant language, but don't touch that dial . . . Aug 14, 2007 10:44 pm2431 views Poll shows 1 in 4 Americans don't read books. But books aren't everything . . . Aug 22, 2007 12:02 am2277 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 pm2249 views Siberian town bans "I don't know." Violators will be sent to . . . Siberia Sep 7, 2007 12:06 am1170 views English-only vs. Spanish in Univision's presidential debate Sep 9, 2007 9:23 pm2424 views The boy who spoke . . . Young muggle awakes from brain surgery with new accent Sep 19, 2007 12:05 am2945 views Japan's government politely lobbies to return English words Sep 23, 2007 11:48 pm2275 views George Bush hooked on phonics at U.N. (that's YOO-en) Sep 27, 2007 2:25 pm1939 views Domo arigato, Dr. Roboto: Researchers prove rats can't understand Japanese backwards. Can you? Oct 6, 2007 1:43 pm2046 views Spell the American way on National Dictionary Day Oct 16, 2007 11:57 pm3480 views Language is a facade. So is an official language. Oct 18, 2007 9:02 pm1208 views Vatican 2.2? Wichita Catholic School goes English-only Oct 21, 2007 11:30 pm2633 views WTF? Swearing at work is good for business Oct 22, 2007 11:15 pm1895 views Washoe, chimp who learned sign language, dies at 42 without signing good-bye Nov 2, 2007 1:30 pm20335 views Sorry, Dr. House. Study correlates neat handwriting with academic success Nov 5, 2007 10:45 pm5717 views Not just freedom fries at this English-only drive-in? Nov 23, 2007 2:45 pm4751 views No translations please, we're British Dec 8, 2007 12:15 am2032 views Republicans want EEOC to speak only English Dec 13, 2007 1:30 am1204 views Grass station, locavore and w00t: we need a better word of the year for 2007 Dec 14, 2007 12:46 pm866 views The word of the year for 2007 is English Dec 16, 2007 4:15 pm2813 views U.N. proclaims 2008 the International Year of Languages Dec 30, 2007 1:15 am1833 views Malay Government tells non-Muslims they can't say "Allah" Jan 1, 2008 3:15 pm3076 views Yo! A new gender-neutral pronoun from, of all places, Baltimore Jan 8, 2008 11:30 pm12568 views Estonia contest will determine world's most beautiful language. Will it be Estonian? Jan 15, 2008 11:15 pm5901 views A language kept alive on life support, literally Jan 19, 2008 12:30 pm2926 views Is the internet killing literacy, or pumping new life into it? Jan 26, 2008 7:00 pm1626 views
