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| Articles about English Language |
| English language legislation gathers steam across the USA | | 2008-06-19 09:18:51 | | USA Today - English as an official language has gained momentum as proponents keep going to the ballot box with measures that discourage bilingual ballots, notices and documents.
Thirty states now have laws specifying that official government communications be in English, says U.S. English, a group that promotes the laws. This year such bills are under [...]... | | By: TexasFred's | | |
| | English language overhaul | | 2008-06-08 16:49:00 | | There is currently talk about the biggest overhaul of the English language in our history. Many academics are aghast at the thought of scrapping silent letters and making words that are all pronounced the same for the first time ever being spelt the same.
English is a successful language because of its adaptability. It is constantly changing and growing and what a few years ago was considered poor education today is incorporated into the current dictionaries. Words like 'all right' can now be used as 'alright.'
This latest gem however is much more radical as it is being suggested that many words will be spelt differently.
If the English language reformists are genuine about this overhaul then surely it would make sense for the whole of the English speaking world to be included. Perhaps it is time for English to be unified so that, no matter which country we live in the language would truly be universal!... | | By: Random Ramblings | | |
| | Hugo Chavez declares war on English language | | 2008-02-26 14:49:00 | | President Hugo Chavez’s government is taking its battle against U.S. “imperialism†into Venezuelans’ vocabulary, urging state phone company workers to eschew English-language business and tech terms that have crept into the local vernacular.Through a campaign launched Monday, newly nationalized CANTV hopes to wean employees and others from words like “staff†(â€equipoâ€), “marketing†(â€mercadeoâ€) and “password†(â€contraseñaâ€).Stickers and banners printed up by the company exhort Venezuelans to “Say it in Spanish. Say it with pride.â€... | | By: THE NEW BABYLON TIMES | | |
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| English Language | | 2007-09-12 06:07:10 | | The more I write, especially for other sites, the more the Language Nazis comeout to play. I have been accused of having a broken spell checker. Not so! I have no spell checker at all! Another problem I run into is writing late at night, after the kids are asleep. I try to get a project finished before I retire, by which time I am pretty tired. I go over and over the post, looking for ways to shorten and clarify things. Then I must go over it another couple of times to make sure my tenses agree. But when I’m tired, I invariably miss something. The first commenter is going to point it out. Never fails. Sure, I can correct it, but it’s not quite ethical to delete a comment to make it seem like I’m perfect, because I’m not. I’m NOT illiterate, I’m just overworked! Honestly! That’s my story, and I’m sticking to it. Language School Ad The Eggcorn Database. Taking a close look at misheard and misunderstood ... | | By: Miss Cellania | | |
| | The globalisation of the english language | | 2007-06-24 11:19:45 | |
Last year Jacques Chirac pledged to fight the spread of the English language across the world after walking out of an EU summit because a French business leader committed the grave offence of speaking in English. He said at the time:
“We fight for our language… I was profoundly shocked to see a Frenchman express himself in English at the table.”
This provided a vivid illustration of French sensitivity about the decline of the language, which used to dominate the EU. English has overtaken French in Brussels after the arrival of Sweden and Finland in 1995 and the “big bang” expansion of the EU to eastern Europe in 2004. With the internet fast turning English into the world’s first language, Mr Chirac insisted that he would continue to promote French, which is spoken as a mother tongue by 100 million people, a relatively small number. He said:
“You cannot base a future world on just one language, just one culture”
This invariably l... | | By: Robs Place | | |
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