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English language offenders: show us examples of bad grammar
Spotted any misuses of language by people and institutions who should know better? Share your photos via GuardianWitness Grammatical mistakes crop up everywhere and are always a subject of lively discussion among our readers. Be it the Bad Grammar awards, the shortlist for which includes offenders such as the NHS, Tesco and Tristam Hunt, or […]
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Lose the language and you lose Shakespeare
His plays don’t become ‘accessible’ by translating them into ‘yoofspeak’. There’s nothing left to access Down with the Bard The news that Shakespeare is being translated into yoofspeak ("Dere was somefing minging in de state of Denmark," et cetera), while revolting, of course, struck me as not exactly news. Hasn’t this been done before? Or […]
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Bugger! Microsoft has deleted the dirty words
There’s precious little fun to be had with the thesaurus built into my computer Wrong type of language: computer dictionaries censor the politically incorrect. Photograph: Getty In the words of John Cleese, I would like to register a complaint. via Books blog + Written language | The Guardian http://ift.tt/1o0NjDq