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The N-word: do we have to spell it out?
The N-word: do we have to spell it out? One word is so uniquely offensive that it should never appear in print, some argue. But does that let people using racist language off the hook?
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The New York Times: Words We Love Too Much By PHILIP B. CORBETT MAY 6, 2014, 8:00 AM
A colleague noted six uses of the description “deep-pocketed” in our copy in a single week not long ago. There were four more appearances during another recent week: “deep-pocketed investors,” “deep-pocketed donors” and “deep-pocketed tobacco companies” (twice).
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Vision of united Ukraine under violent attack
DONETSK, Ukraine — Diana Berg and Ekaterina Kostrova were brought up speaking Russian, but in the past few weeks they have discovered in themselves a new sense of Ukrainian patriotism. Theirs was a vision of a united Ukraine, a country with “European values” but with close ties to Russia, a country where it does not […]
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Why ‘Mr Stink’ beats ‘King Solomon’s Mines’ for children today
From The Sunday Telegraph ‘No friend is as loyal as a book,” said Ernest Hemingway. That gets to the key point about books, which is that they are basically friends. They make life better. Especially if you get into them young: only last week a study revealed that children who were read to early in […]
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New issue of the Linguistics and Education Bulletin
New issue of the Linguistics and Education Bulletin http://ift.tt/Shrv9b
