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Real guys pose in underwear ads - 0 views

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    UK daily The Sun decided to have some fun by getting four readers to strike similar poses in their undies.
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What real men would look like in pants ads - 0 views

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    REAL women with real shapes have figured in ad campaigns for years, with brands such as Dove and M&S showing the female form as nature intended. (Daily Mail)
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Telling Tales in Proto-Indo-European - 0 views

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    All modern Indo-European languages are descended from a single tongue called Proto-Indo-European, or PIE, spoken by a people who lived from roughly 4500 to 2500 B.C., and left no written texts. The question became, what did PIE sound like?
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Is This How Our Ancestors Sounded? - 0 views

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    Linguist Recreates Proto-Indo-European Language (AUDIO)
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Literary terms - Korean - 0 views

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    Flashcards with literary terms in English and Korean
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Feminist parody of Robin Thicke's 'Blurred Lines' removed from Youtube for being 'inapp... - 1 views

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    Feminist parody temporarily removed from Youtube
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So why was the Blurred Lines feminist parody removed from YouTube? - 0 views

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    Independent Voices - opinion
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TrueCar.com Ad Rescues Clueless Women Who Could Never Buy a Car Without a Man Around - 0 views

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    TV commercial offends women
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Multiples: 12 Stories in 18 Languages by 61 Authors edited by Adam Thirlwell - - 0 views

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    12 stories are translated out of the original language and then back again. A fascinating experiment in language and the effects of style
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America's fabulously mongrel language is a model of immigration reform - 0 views

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    Nativist efforts to force immigrants to learn 'proper English' are unintentionally hilarious: our very vernacular is a melting-pot
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WMDs, 'unconventional' weapons and the language of war - 0 views

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    Obama's use of the phrase 'unconventional weapons' offers a nuance that to use them is sneaky and underhand
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Should English be the official language of the EU? - 0 views

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    German president Joachim Gauck's cost-cutting proposal has been welcomed - but not by all
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The French protect their language like the British protect their currency - 0 views

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    A row over using English in universities has blown up in France, where language is at the heart of the national identity
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Natural born linguists: what drives multi-language speakers? - 0 views

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    Get out there and chat to native speakers if you want to learn a language, advises a group of multilingual speakers (Guardian)
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Comparing US and world covers for Time magazine - 0 views

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    Each week, TIME Magazine designs covers for four markets: the U.S., Europe, Asia and the South Pacific. Often, America's cover is quite, well - different.
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How Do You Say 'Blog' in German? - 2 views

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    The editors of the German Duden dictionary added 5,000 words to the 26th edition, many of them English or of English origin. Some Germans aren't happy (NYT Op-ed)
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The Language Wars by Henry Hitchings - review - 2 views

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    Review of "an entertaining and thoughtful history of the pedantry, scholarship and prejudice that surround the English language"
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Who cares if immigrants have English as a second language? - 1 views

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    It's understandable to be frustrated when the person behind the counter has no English, but what really upsets people is hearing other languages in shops or on buses
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The man who kept the Lakota language alive - 0 views

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    Albert White Hat, a member of the Rosebud Sioux tribe died recently, but his work helped the Lakota language remain in existence.
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The UK riots and language: 'rioter', 'protester' or 'scum'? - 0 views

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    The BBC drew a small storm of criticism for using the word 'protesters' to describe the people taking part in trouble
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