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Articles in Language


February 2007

Gertrude Stein’s Radical Grammar

“Revolting” question marks, codependent commas, and the apostrophes that speak to our weakness


October 2006

Dictation-bound

Forget spelling bees - for a real challenge, try the Dictée des Amériques


October 2004

Eloquence Lost

On Abraham Lincoln, The O.C., and the demise of the typographical mind


April 2004

Idiom-proof

Why can’t the Canadian dialect match the wit and inventiveness of Irish or Australian speech?


February 2004

MSN Spoken Here

The latest street lingo springs from the computer keyboard and is changing the form of the written word


November 2003

Lingua Franchise

Mat saleh calling it English killer language. Wah. For chiak kantang, salary-men it a bit the different, lah?

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