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Language For You
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Posts about writing, intended for college students and mature high school students; posts about learning English as a foreign language; occasional posts about translating from German to English.
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Funny Language School Commercial
This commercial made the rounds a year or two ago, but I thought it would be fun to dig it up again. I’m not trying to advertise the school that made it though. I’ve worked for them in the past, and they’re okay, but this is just fo...
Academic Podcasts
If you are learning English as a second language, are at an advanced level, and want more challenging listening practice, then you might be interested in the audio interviews at The Chronicle of Higher Education. This paper offers news to faculty and...
Expressing disagreement without being disagreeable
I often listen to foreign policy discussions on the Diane Rehm Show, because I enjoy the intelligent advice by experts from divergent viewpoints. Last Wednesday’s show on U.S. Strategy in Iraq, which I listened to as a podcast later in the week...
When “most” doesn’t mean “most”
A recent letter to The Washington Post by Gloria Steinem leaves me shaking my head in incomprehension. I thought “most” implied “more than” anything else being compared, but she would have me believe otherwise. [DeNeen L.] Bro...
Contractions
In English we can turn cannot into can’t, would not into wouldn’t, is not into isn’t, will not into won’t, and so on. We call these short forms contractions. Contractions are for spoken English and informal prose, but never fo...
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BT Cassidy Said:
Really informative and helpful- I'm passing the link on to a few of my friends who are wrapping their heads around the idiocies of the English Language.
