Topic: Language In Use
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LanguTrans posted a blog entry
Has European multilinguism become a nuisance?
The controversial comments of Dutch academic Abram de Swaan, who called European multilinguism “a pain in the neck”...
The controversial comments of Dutch academic Abram de Swaan, who called European multilinguism “a pain in the neck”...
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Tips for doing business in Canada
Canadians are our next-door neighbors — so close that sometimes we Americans assume they must be “just like...
Canadians are our next-door neighbors — so close that sometimes we Americans assume they must be “just like...
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Acronym accuracy
What does AST stand for? According to Acronym Finder, the abbreviation has nearly a hundred definitions, ranging from “Alaska...
What does AST stand for? According to Acronym Finder, the abbreviation has nearly a hundred definitions, ranging from “Alaska...
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Germany strives for more use of German in European Union
110 million Europeans speak German, making it Europe’s top native language. And Germans are not always pleased that English...
110 million Europeans speak German, making it Europe’s top native language. And Germans are not always pleased that English...
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A year in Dictionaryland
Word-lover Ammon Shea recently spent an year reading the entire Oxford English Dictionary — and has written a book to...
Word-lover Ammon Shea recently spent an year reading the entire Oxford English Dictionary — and has written a book to...
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Italians worry about incursion of English into la bella lingua
Tales of the French fretting over how too many English words have wormed their way into le français are legend. But recently,...
Tales of the French fretting over how too many English words have wormed their way into le français are legend. But recently,...
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Crowdsourced dictionaries: the debate is on
Crowdsourcing is all the rage, and the debate is on about whether it is an appropriate means of translation — or of...
Crowdsourcing is all the rage, and the debate is on about whether it is an appropriate means of translation — or of...
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Trouble learning foreign languages? Blame your brain!
Have you ever wondered why some people pick up foreign languages much more quickly than others? Scientific research suggests...
Have you ever wondered why some people pick up foreign languages much more quickly than others? Scientific research suggests...
