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Why do we make mistakes? Blame your brain, the original autocorrecter | Mind your language
A normal functioning human sails blithely past errors in a text while understanding perfectly what it means. We see what it’s convenient to see Does Siri make us lazy? Does Facebook make us lonely? Does Twitter make us stupid? Will Google Glass make twitching, distracted Glassholes of us all? If you’ve read a magazine, listened […]
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Born Again in a Second Language (NYT 4/8/2013)
By COSTICA BRADATAN To abandon your native tongue and adopt another is to dismantle yourself,
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Parallel Problems
The Times’s stylebook entry on the either/or construction seems simple. But we stumble often. After Deadline http://afterdeadline.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/06/parallel-problems-3/
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How many hours does it take to be fluent in English?
Immigrants are always being told by politicians to learn the language. But how long does it take to speak good English?
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Obviously … the only way is Essex if you want to hear nouveau cockney. Reem | Mind your language
There’s a good reason why Towie outshines its scripted reality rivals – the language. It’s well educational The reality TV show is an unlikely place to look for linguistic intrigue. Egocentricity requires very little diversity of diction; the only narrative is the first person and the only tone is audaciously brash to conceal the utter […]
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Young people ‘prefer to read on screen’
Young people are now more likely to read on screen than in a printed book Young people are now much more likely to prefer to read on a computer screen rather than a printed book or magazine, according to a UK survey.