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Nov 26, 2010
Spelling and the Internets

At Thanksgiving dinner we talking about text messaging and the damages to proper spelling, and now I just saw this: “Chatrooms and social websites encourage bad spelling, says study.”
Determined among …

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Oct 12, 2010
New Language

Did you see this article last week? I thought it was pretty interesting: “Undocumented Language Found Hidden In India.”
Key quote:
Previously undocumented languages are “noticed from time to time” Harrison …

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May 1, 2010
Lost Languages Found, in New York

Fascinating article in the New York Times the other day about the languages that are more commonly heard in New York than anywhere else in the world, even from where …

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Mar 10, 2010
South African Slang

So as you know South Africa is hosting the FIFA World Cup in June.

Ahead of that, the “Schott’s Vocab” blog on the New York Times has a …

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Mar 10, 2010
European Parliment Languages

I love languages. I love that you can say the same thing in hundreds of different ways. How some languages have subtleties that others lack. Each has …

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