DP English A Language and Literature

English professor says spelling doesn't matter (NYT article)

Teenagers are abandoning basic grammar and punctuation and resorting to text message slang in A-levels and GCSEs, examiners have revealed

opinion column about LOL, IMHO, etc

Racist reaction to commercial featuring mixed-race couple

A manual designed to help officers bridge the cultural divide with immigrant groups (NYT)

'We have a moral obligation to ban the airbrush': Debenhams vows not to retouch model shots... and calls on others to follow suit

Study shows immersion is the best way to become fluent in a foreign language

All languages are enriched by borrowing foreign words. But some believe that, with the international spread of English, the process has gone too far. Can the Germans, the French and others halt the Anglo-Saxon tide?

My expat child doesn't want to speak my native language.(blog)

A linguist has concluded that a new language, with unique grammatical rules, has come into existence, created by children in a remote area of Australia (NYT article)

Media coverage on Jeremy Lin and race

"Baktun," made entirely in the Mayan language, might be the cleanest telenovela in Mexico.

Australian Wimbledon viewers were subjected to insufferable protagonists in Kia's latest campaign.

To abandon your native tongue and adopt another is to dismantle yourself, piece by piece, and then to put yourself together again in a different form (NYT )

Map that shows where in the United States people speak certain foreign languages

In New Square, NY, nearly 93% of the 7,000 or so residents speak Yiddish at home (NYT)

Writing or saying someone's name correctly is a matter of respect.

The old East End dialect is moving out to Essex, says one academic.

A Dior show last month was notable for its increased use of black models, but not much has changed five years after a Vogue article asked, "Is Fashion Racist?"