Language
- Vanishing Languages--"One language dies every 14 days. By the next century nearly half of the roughly 7,000 languages spoken on Earth will likely disappear, as communities abandon native tongues in favor of English, Mandarin, or Spanish. What is lost when a language goes silent?"
- English language 'originated in Turkey'
- Language X is essentially language Y under conditions Z
- Vowel Movement--"How Americans near the Great Lakes are radically changing the sound of English."
- xkcd: Cautionary Ghost
- Using YouTube comments, tweets and IMs to teach English composition
- Tu and Twitter: Is it the end for 'vous' in French?
- Google Translate vs. Latin Dummy Text
- Behind the killing of a pregnant woman--"We have yet to be convinced that the policeman was really trying to stop a citizen from using indecent language and that upholding the law in this case was of such paramount interest to him that not even her state of defenceless and of advanced pregnancy could have deterred him."
- F-bomb makes it into mainstream dictionary
- How America Swears: Here's a Heatmap Tracking Twitter Profanity
- Dear Apple, please will you let me say s***?
- Sex, violence and swearing on film: 100 years of the BBFC--"From counting f-words to examining hours of graphic gore, the British Board of Film Classification reveals the secrets of a century of rating, cutting and occasionally banning movies."
- Isn't It Ironic? Probably Not
- Americans don't appear to have a clue about irony
- Ed Byrne slates Alanis Morissette
- Group: Scrabble Player Caught Cheating at US Event--"One of the top young Scrabble players in the country has been kicked out of the game's national championship tournament in Florida after he was caught hiding blank letter tiles..." Scrabble is sirius bizness.
- Poem which uses all 100 Scrabble tiles
- With Or Without U - IS THAT A WORD?--Sesame Street-worthy.
