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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/08/fashion/fashions-blind-spot.html?pagewanted=2&nl=toda... - 0 views

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    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?"
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Rhyming slang is nang - 3 views

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    The old East End dialect is moving out to Essex, says one academic.
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Have a 'tough' name that Starbucks can't handle? Welcome to my world - 2 views

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    Writing or saying someone's name correctly is a matter of respect.
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At Home in This Village: Yiddish Speakers - 0 views

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    In New Square, NY, nearly 93% of the 7,000 or so residents speak Yiddish at home (NYT)
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US Census Bureau Language Mapper - 0 views

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    Map that shows where in the United States people speak certain foreign languages
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Born Again in a Second Language - 2 views

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    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 )
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Is this the most irritating ad ever? - 1 views

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    Australian Wimbledon viewers were subjected to insufferable protagonists in Kia's latest campaign.
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A Culture Clings to Its Reflection in a Cleaned-Up Soap Opera - 1 views

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    "Baktun," made entirely in the Mayan language, might be the cleanest telenovela in Mexico.
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Jeremy Lin - journalism guidelines on race - 2 views

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    Media coverage on Jeremy Lin and race
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Linguist Finds a Language in Its Infancy - 2 views

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    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)
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No English! - 1 views

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    My expat child doesn't want to speak my native language.(blog)
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Sprechen Sie Denglish? - 0 views

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    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?
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Seeing Pictures of Home Can Make It Harder To Speak a Foreign Language - 0 views

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    Study shows immersion is the best way to become fluent in a foreign language
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UK department store bans retouching of models' photos - 0 views

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    'We have a moral obligation to ban the airbrush': Debenhams vows not to retouch model shots... and calls on others to follow suit
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Little-Known Guide Helps Police Navigate a Diverse City - 0 views

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    A manual designed to help officers bridge the cultural divide with immigrant groups (NYT)
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Cheerios Exec On Ad Featuring Mixed Race Couple: 'We Were Reflecting An American Family' - 0 views

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    Racist reaction to commercial featuring mixed-race couple
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Sam Leith's most hated online abbreviations - 2 views

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    opinion column about LOL, IMHO, etc
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Text message slang 'invading GCSEs and A-levels' - 0 views

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