blog posts Washoe, chimp who learned sign language, dies at 42 without signing good-bye Nov 2, 2007 1:30 pm19933 views Bong Hits 4 Jesus: High Court rules that students who mention drugs are pushing them Jun 25, 2007 11:08 pm9474 views Sorry, Dr. House. Study correlates neat handwriting with academic success Nov 5, 2007 10:45 pm5673 views Esperanto, the language that promises hope but doesn't deliver, celebrates 120th birthday Jan 20, 2007 8:35 pm5472 views "Young chicken without sex": China bans Chinglish for Olympics Apr 12, 2007 6:45 pm5345 views French the most legal language, say the French Feb 9, 2007 11:45 am5117 views U.S. Army's latest slogan: We speak Farsi so you don't have to Jun 19, 2007 3:51 pm5012 views Not just freedom fries at this English-only drive-in? Nov 23, 2007 2:45 pm4721 views Urban legend: don't end sentence with preposition Jan 4, 2007 9:19 am4641 views Spanish Pledge of Allegiance? Oy vey, can you see it's deja vu all over again? Feb 3, 2007 11:45 pm3755 views Monolingualism: the native language of intolerance? Jul 19, 2007 11:31 am3633 views Joe Biden's Obama moment, or, I love it when you talk white to me Feb 6, 2007 11:00 pm3576 views Spell the American way on National Dictionary Day Oct 16, 2007 11:57 pm3447 views English makes you fat Apr 23, 2007 1:30 pm3278 views Banning bitch and ho: If words are outlawed, only outlaws will have words Aug 8, 2007 1:08 pm3108 views A modest proposal: Don't make English official, ban it instead Mar 2, 2007 9:45 am2992 views The boy who spoke . . . Young muggle awakes from brain surgery with new accent Sep 19, 2007 12:05 am2926 views Illinois bans male pronoun Jan 2, 2007 8:16 pm2856 views The word of the year for 2007 is English Dec 16, 2007 4:15 pm2808 views Vatican 2.2? Wichita Catholic School goes English-only Oct 21, 2007 11:30 pm2606 views Federal Appeals Court rules you can swear on the air, but only for the hell of it Jun 7, 2007 2:50 pm2449 views English-only vs. Spanish in Univision's presidential debate Sep 9, 2007 9:23 pm2387 views Watching TV delays infant language, but don't touch that dial . . . Aug 14, 2007 10:44 pm2384 views Poll shows 1 in 4 Americans don't read books. But books aren't everything . . . Aug 22, 2007 12:02 am2266 views Japan's government politely lobbies to return English words Sep 23, 2007 11:48 pm2235 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 pm2195 views It's time to ban the banned words list Jan 1, 2007 7:30 pm2162 views Presidential candidates: speaking Spanish now, but will they forget it after the test? Jun 18, 2007 5:47 pm2067 views No translations please, we're British Dec 8, 2007 12:15 am2012 views The new voice of immigration reform: First speak English, then maybe we'll let you in Jun 17, 2007 4:35 pm1969 views Domo arigato, Dr. Roboto: Researchers prove rats can't understand Japanese backwards. Can you? Oct 6, 2007 1:43 pm1965 views What to name the baby? Forget grandma, hire a consultant Jul 15, 2007 12:05 am1963 views George Bush hooked on phonics at U.N. (that's YOO-en) Sep 27, 2007 2:25 pm1886 views A panda walks into a bar, or, why language self-help books help nobody Feb 14, 2007 5:52 pm1881 views WTF? Swearing at work is good for business Oct 22, 2007 11:15 pm1865 views Hillary Clinton: Runs like a man, talks like a girl Apr 26, 2007 6:45 pm1851 views Guns and grammar: punctuation doesn't make meaning, people do Mar 13, 2007 11:26 pm1846 views High cost of English got you down? Speak Esperanto and save Jul 23, 2007 3:41 pm1830 views U.N. proclaims 2008 the International Year of Languages Dec 30, 2007 1:15 am1818 views Bee Season: The annual spelling bee brings out protesters as well as nerds May 30, 2007 10:30 pm1707 views McDonald's tells Webster, "Take this McJob and shove it" Jun 7, 2007 2:05 pm1597 views Army tells gay translators, don't tell, or don't translate May 25, 2007 1:15 pm1584 views The N-word: on its way out? Mar 7, 2007 1:15 pm1508 views State threatens to close schools violating official language law Jan 18, 2007 10:29 pm1455 views CSI: Quebec -- Provincial tongue troopers on the trail of illegal English May 24, 2007 3:15 pm1449 views Reinventing English: Why plain language isn't so simple Mar 9, 2007 12:12 am1425 views For Gingrich, English is global, Spanish is ghetto. Apr 6, 2007 2:00 pm1419 views Pentagon declares foreign language a weapon. O.K., maggots, drop and give me 50 conjugations Jan 30, 2007 12:21 pm1356 views Spelling counts at the Spelling Bee, but in the age of the Internet, should it count anywhere else? May 31, 2007 11:30 pm1344 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