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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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The Economist: Tricky pronunciation, Spreek je Dutch? (30/5/2014)
WELKOM! The signs at the airport should be reassuring. Welcome to the Netherlands! What could be easier to figure out? Dutch has been rightly described as between German and English,
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Unreliable research. Trouble at the Lab (The Economist 19th Oct 2013)
Scientists like to think of science as self-correcting. To an alarming degree, it is not Oct 19th 2013 |From the print edition “I SEE a train wreck looming,” warned Daniel Kahneman, an eminent psychologist, in an open letter last year. The premonition concerned research on a phenomenon known as “priming”. Priming studies suggest that decisions can […]