Stories they tell about languages
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Mom losing battle against poor grammar
It's a little thing, perhaps, but it makes me nuts: My son constantly talks (and texts) using poor grammar. Specifically, "me and my friends are ...
Puppet gets a more expressive configuration language
With an update to its namesake configuration tool, Puppet Labs has introduced a programming language designed to give administrators more flexibility ...
Kevin Ducoff: Ginger Software Maps One Trillion English Sentences Online To Personalize Language Learning
Anyone who has learned a second language knows that using non-mother tongue in real-life situations can be unnerving. Just ask any English speaker ...
Eating naartjies in the bioscope: a little guide to South African English | Mind your language
The vocabulary and grammar of spoken South African English are coated in a fine layer of Afrikaans dust. It's been there so long that most of us no ...
How 'Arrested Development' editor Kabir Akhtar solved the 'Season 4' puzzle (Q&A)
; Credit: Screenshot via Netflix "Family Love Michael," reads the banner in our hearts — "Arrested Development" will be unmaking a huge mistake on ...
Border Collie Taught To Understand English Grammar
Chaser is a female border collie. And she can understand English grammar. She can understand the relationships between a prepositional object, verb, ...
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Writing Wrongs: 10 Movie Titles with Bad Grammar
For all the considerable resources that go into marketing Hollywood movies, it would seem that scant attention is paid to checking the grammar and ...
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Tamil out for college assignments, tests
From this year, students of all arts, science colleges must use only English: education council
Language tip of the week: films
In this weekly post, we bring more useful content from the Macmillan Dictionary to English language learners. These tips are usually based on areas ...