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Children’s intellectual development Bedtime stories Regular sleeping hours really are good for children—if they are girls The economist Jul 13th 2013
IN THAT mythical era when children were seen and not heard, and did as they were told without argument, everyone knew that regular bedtimes were important. “Dream on!” most modern parents might reply.
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The war of the words How Republicans and Democrats use language. The Economist 12/7/3013
“POLITICAL language”, wrote George Orwell, “is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”
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Linguist Finds a Language in Its Infancy. NYT 15/7/2013 By NICHOLAS BAKALAR
There are many dying languages in the world. But at least one has recently been born, created by children living in a remote village in northern Australia.
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Las malas lenguas/ aprender español a pie de calle
El Mundo Español a pie de calle Han convertido la enseñanza del español en una excusa para hacer turismo por Madrid.
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Teenage hyperpolyglot: Shrug like a Frenchman and frown like a Russian
TIMOTHY DONER looks like an ordinary American teenager. Medium-height and slight, he arrives in a grey T-shirt and jeans. As he is being miked for his interview, our producer asks him a http://www.economist.com/blogs/johnson/2013/07/teenage-hyperpolyglot-0 question to get him talking, so that she can check his voice levels:
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The Economist (29-6-2013) German business and English: No Denglisch
Willkommen to linguistic purity Jun 29th 2013 |From the print edition TRAVELLERS on Deutsche Bahn, Germany’s state-owned railway, are used to being addressed in a peculiar language peppered with ponderous English words and phrases, such as Neue Snackbox für Kids.