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Essentially, spoken words are awesome (The Guardian 19/9/2014)
If our most-used words are anything to go by, we spend too much time on Google and are obsessed with smartphones. Is language that transparent?
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Night of the living dead nouns (The Economist 18/9/2014)
VERBING nouns annoys a lot of people.
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Neighbour languages: linguistic coexistence
(The Economist 20-8-2014) CROSSING the Oresund bridge from Denmark to Sweden is not merely a matter of a cringe-inducing toll
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Losing your first language (BBC News)
For many of us, the thought of ever forgetting how to speak our native language would seem preposterous. But for some readers, it became a reality.
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Future English (as a lingua franca) -The Economist
SEVERAL weeks ago, Johnson discussed his debate with Nicholas Ostler about the lingua franca of the future.
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Internet Language Research
The Economist (19-06-2014) IF YOU’VE been on Facebook recently, and you’re the kind of person who reads this column, there’s a good chance you’ve seen one of two viral language tests going round. Like many things on Facebook, they’re a fun diversion. Unlike many things on Facebook, they’re helping serious researchers learn about language and […]