Hold the “-phone” – a teacher really got fired for this?
A few weeks ago, teacher Tim Torkildson was fired for a blog post he’d written on his school’s website. The subject? Homophones. If you...
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- Aug 11, 2014
Getting to know Globish
There are various reasons why. For one thing, you can rant and rave all you want to against the kids today and their pop music, but if...
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- Jul 28, 2014
Is correct grammar always correct?
If you love impeccable grammar and feel conflicted about the song “Blurred Lines”, music parody superstar “Weird Al” Yankovic’s new...
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- Jul 21, 2014
Documents We’ve Lost
It’s amazing how many written documents exist, both in concrete and virtual form. And just as amazing is the fact that these aren’t all...
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- May 26, 2014
Not All Spanish is the Same
While Spanish is the most translated language in the United States, these translations are often fraught with errors because translators...
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- May 12, 2014
Translating the Past
With their minute attention to detail, nowadays it seems like watching a historically-set movie or TV show is about as close as you can...
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- May 5, 2014
When Does Language Learning Really Start?
Our native language is sometimes called our “mother tongue”. This makes sense; for most of us, the first person we bond with is our...
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- Apr 21, 2014
How the Internet is Saving Latin… and some other languages, too.
“I saved Latin!” Max Fischer, the protagonist of Wes Anderson’s marvelous movie Rushmore boasted. It turns out he’s not the only one who...
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- Apr 7, 2014
Looking for (the language of) love
Every year as February turns to March, my boyfriend starts telling me about colleagues who’ve found love. “You know, it’s springtime,”...
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- Mar 31, 2014
Yet Another Reason to Study Abroad
To many of us, studying abroad for a semester or academic year seems like a pretty great idea. There’s nothing like experiencing a...
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- Mar 10, 2014
“Whom” Do You Love?
According to a recent Wired magazine article on how to create the perfect online dating profile, men who use the pronoun “whom” in their...
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- Mar 3, 2014
Good News: A Learned Language Can’t Be Lost
It’s not uncommon to look through your old high school yearbook and feel a sense of disbelief. “I can’t believe I thought that haircut...
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- Feb 24, 2014
Buzzfeed: Lists…and Linguistics
My name is Alysa, and I’m addicted to the website Buzzfeed. If you are, too, I’m not judging you. But sometimes other people are. ...
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- Feb 10, 2014
The Privileges and Pitfalls of Having an Accent
Recently, Juan Pablo Galavis, the star of this year’s “Bachelor” made headlines with some negative comments about gay couples, calling...
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- Jan 27, 2014
Is it better to say it out loud or write it down?
For the past week, I’ve been combing through online ads between work assignments, searching for a secondhand bookcase that would look...
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- Jan 13, 2014
Soon, dogs may be able to talk to us…
But is that a good thing? Like many of you, I bet, I dream of being able to converse with animals, Dr. Dolittle-style. So I was pretty...
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- Dec 23, 2013
Bilingual & Multilingual Writers are my Heroes
The other day, a client asked me if I could translate some articles I’d written for him into French. This is a complicated question:...
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- Dec 9, 2013
Emoji: From Smiley Faces to a Great American Novel
Can you communicate in emoji? “Emoji” is a Japanese compound word meaning “picture” and “letter”. These symbols, which range from...
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- Nov 4, 2013
Second Languages and Self Reliance
Regardless of political beliefs, everyone can agree that the healthcare.gov website got off to a rocky start, including when it came to...
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- Oct 21, 2013
What really makes us learn a language?
In a recent Huffington Post article, Amelia Friedman writes about the disproportionate number of American students studying western...
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