One of the Internet's great promises is that it's the ultimate democratizer. It's open to everyone and allows all people to communicate.
One of the Internet's great promises is that it's the ultimate democratizer. It's open to everyone and allows all people to communicate.
English contains more words than any other language on the planet and added its millionth word early Wednesday, according to the Global Language Monitor, a Web site that uses a math formula to estimate how often words are created.
English contains more words than any other language on the planet and will add its millionth word early Wednesday, according to the Global Language Monitor, a Web site that uses a math formula to estimate how often words are created.
Layla Khalil escaped the bombs that rocked Iraq during three years of insurgent and sectarian warfare, only to be gunned down while trying to learn English in her adopted hometown, family and friends said Sunday.
The new mom quips that her 7-month-old is so smart he's "speaking full sentences"
Twitter users may value brevity in their messages, but that doesn't mean they don't think about the social implications of language.
MINNEAPOLIS -- The way provincialism and partisanship grab hold of a situation such as the one in which the Minnesota Vikings found themselves in this week, you find yourself dealing with almost two versions of reality. There is the version as seen and vented over by those close enough to the team to either work for it or reside nearby in the Twin Cities. Then there is the take of folks in Chicago, Green Bay and other rival NFL cities, witnessing from afar the controversy over diuretics in the drug tests of two important Vikings players, defensive tackles Pat Williams and Kevin Williams, and their subsequent suspensions by and legal entanglements with the NFL.
This was the summer of $4 a gallon gas - and its impact on Americans is reflected in our lexicon.
A dictionary's cull of archaic terms has brought language mavens onto the ramparts
One of the Internet's great promises is that it's the ultimate democratizer. It's open to everyone and allows all people to communicate.
One of the Internet's great promises is that it's the ultimate democratizer. It's open to everyone and allows all people to communicate.
English contains more words than any other language on the planet and added its millionth word early Wednesday, according to the Global Language Monitor, a Web site that uses a math formula to estimate how often words are created.
English contains more words than any other language on the planet and will add its millionth word early Wednesday, according to the Global Language Monitor, a Web site that uses a math formula to estimate how often words are created.
Layla Khalil escaped the bombs that rocked Iraq during three years of insurgent and sectarian warfare, only to be gunned down while trying to learn English in her adopted hometown, family and friends said Sunday.
The new mom quips that her 7-month-old is so smart he's "speaking full sentences"
Twitter users may value brevity in their messages, but that doesn't mean they don't think about the social implications of language.
MINNEAPOLIS -- The way provincialism and partisanship grab hold of a situation such as the one in which the Minnesota Vikings found themselves in this week, you find yourself dealing with almost two versions of reality. There is the version as seen and vented over by those close enough to the team to either work for it or reside nearby in the Twin Cities. Then there is the take of folks in Chicago, Green Bay and other rival NFL cities, witnessing from afar the controversy over diuretics in the drug tests of two important Vikings players, defensive tackles Pat Williams and Kevin Williams, and their subsequent suspensions by and legal entanglements with the NFL.
This was the summer of $4 a gallon gas - and its impact on Americans is reflected in our lexicon.
A dictionary's cull of archaic terms has brought language mavens onto the ramparts
For more than a decade, as the immigration debate has swelled on both sides of the border, the Mexican government has been quietly providing money, materials and even teachers to American schools, colleges and nonprofit organizations
When it comes to the World Championship of the French-language version of the erudite board game, Senegal is the team to beat
J.K. Rowling said Monday that her efforts to halt a publisher's "Harry Potter" lexicon have been crushing her creativity
The BBC has launched an Arabic-language television news channel in a bid to challenge Al-Jazeera and other popular Middle East TV news outlets.
With 22 states holding their primaries and caucuses on February 5's "Tsunami Tuesday," the candidates now find themselves trying to win the support of the different ethnic communities that can deliver a bloc of votes
After six months of deadlock, the country's factions formed an emergency coalition. But with security being stepped up, the hard work has already begun
Here you will find various video clips of Nancy discussing her pregnancy and the twins. Nancy tells viewers she's having a boy AND a girl! • Baby Talk Nancy Grace talks with Lori from Arkansas about how her babies dance to the theme music. • Baby Talk Nancy talks with Sharon from Pennsylvania about the heartache she feels with some stories. • Baby Talk Nancy talks with Eva from New Jersey about her latest sonogram. • Baby Talk Nancy Grace jokes with Nicole from Ohio about having triplets. • Baby Talk Nancy Grace talks with Lisa from Pennsylvania about seeing the sonogram of her twins. • Baby Talk Nancy Graces talks with Melinda from Colorado about what the theme music does to the twins. • Baby Talk Nancy Grace talks with Stacey from New York about the twins doing a back flip. • Baby Talk Kimberly from Tennessee is excited for Nancy. • Baby Talk Amy from Ohio congratulates Nancy on her twins. • Baby Talk Nancy Grace talks with Geri from
Al-Jazeera broadcast Monday an audio message purportedly from al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden calling on al Qaeda and other groups in Iraq to unify their forces and speak with one voice, that of the Islamic nation.
Most Americans realize that when they call a bank, electronics maker or insurance provider, there's a good chance their queries will be routed to a call center outside the U.S., perhaps in India, the Philippines or other markets filled with English speakers happy to provide customer service or tech support for relatively low wages.
Google revealed on Monday that it had acquired a stake in Chinese community Web site Tianya.cn, indicating a foray by Google into social networking in the world's second-largest Internet market.
Google Inc revealed on Monday that it had acquired a stake in Chinese community Web site Tianya.cn, indicating a foray by the global search leader into social networking in the world's second-largest Internet market.
The burger giant declares war on the definition of 'McJob' as low-paid, dead-end employment. Its first target: the OED
French-speaking politicians see a better chance of claiming the top job in the country's upcoming election, but the favorites remain Flemish
The victims came to Virginia Tech from different backgrounds and different continents.
To my despair, we keep having to hear about unpleasant words, only identified by their lead letter. The N-word, the F-word, and so forth. Boy, I'm tired of that. It's so coy, isn't it? But if that's the way the game has to be played, then I think it's time to register a catalog of sports words that are so cliched, so predictable that they become obscene in their own dreary way, and thus henceforth should only be identified by their first letter. OK?
If you are more than about 45 years old, you probably can't forget when you first heard a 1972 monologue by comedian George Carlin titled "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television." Ordinarily w...
The most important imports in the Daytona 500 Sunday are not the three Toyota Camrys that will be in the field for the first time. Instead it will be Juan Pablo Montoya, the Colombian-born rookie driver.
With advice on everything from how to get a raise, to where the tech jobs are now, to the best way to get a rude co-worker to shut up, here are excerpts from some of the top Ask Annie columns of the year. By Fortune's Anne Fisher
After blocking Wikipedia for nearly a year, Chinese authorities in October allowed access to most of the online encyclopedia's English-language entries and, in some cities, to the Chinese-language ...
If you're looking for that next big job or promotion, you might want to forgo your next resume workshop for a trip to the nearest library.
Come to Iraq, and it's handy to know a second language.
It's the fastest-growing major economy in the world and an ever more important draw for investment, materials and -- of course -- management expertise. Can any prospective MBA student ignore China?
Dear Annie: A friend of mine sent me a very funny column you wrote last summer about annoying workplace jargon ("Business Buzzwords that Make You Gag"), but I have a different problem. I work in an office with well-educated people who are perfectly capable of expressing themselves without recourse to foul language, yet every other word out of their mouths is f*** or sh** or some such. I have no problem with the occasional expletive, but this constant stream of obscenities is really starting to get on my nerves. Is it realistic to think that I can do anything about this, or should I just keep trying to tune it out? -Weary Ears
If you want to take the temperature of Japan's economic relations with China, forget recent heated exchanges over Japan's World War II legacy. Focus instead on something cool--really cool: the tiny...
(FORTUNE Magazine) - If you want to take the temperature of Japan's economic relations with China, forget recent heated exchanges over Japan's World War II legacy.
Money. Power. Attraction. Sounds like the stuff Univision's telenovelas are made of.
AC MIlan are to start negotiations with Chelsea for the transfer of Ukraine striker Andriy Shevchenko to the English Premier League club.
Flip on Univision or Telemundo on any given night, and in between the melodramatic telenovelas and campy talk shows, you'll see the biggest consumer brands in the world pitching their products in Spanish. It would seem every major company, from car makers to fast food franchises, is trying to reach the nation's fast-growing Hispanic population, now more than 40 million strong.
Spanish language broadcaster Univision is "muy caliente" on Wall Street these days.
On 52 nights last season the most watched television network among 18- to 34-year-olds was not ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, or even youth-oriented outlets like the WB and UPN. It was Univision, the Spanish-...
The mood was tense at the Bel Age Hotel in West Hollywood, Calif., early last year. The top two dozen executives of Sears Roebuck & Co. were gathering for a strategy session with Eddie Lampert, the...
The mood was tense at the Bel Age hotel in West Hollywood, Calif., early last year. The top two dozen executives of Sears Roebuck & Co. were gathering for a strategy session with Eddie Lampert, then 42, the billionaire hedge fund manager who had just engineered an unlikely takeover of their venerable but struggling company.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - Forget the Super Bowl. Who really cares about the Winter Olympics?
Slam dunk. Don't go there. What were you thinking? Disconnect. Net-net. Yessssssss!
The BBC World Service has announced it is to set up a new Arabic television channel, in what it describes as its "biggest transformation in 70 years."
Farmers are campaigning to remove from dictionaries the term "couch potato" which they say makes the vegetable seem unhealthy and is bad for its image.
The response from the "vocabularians" was so "ginormous" that the lexicographers let out a "whoot."
He revolutionized the way that many blind people read when he invented a machine that scanned printed material and read it aloud, and when Ray Kurzweil sold the device to Xerox for $6 million, he c...
A suicide car bomber killed at least nine people and wounded 24 others Friday near a Shiite Muslim mosque in Baghdad, police sources said.
The Bush administration is planning to expand the reach of its Arabic-language satellite channel, Alhurra, into Europe, an official overseeing the network said Sunday.
As the tremendous extent of the damage caused by the Asian tsunamis becomes apparent, a number of performers are stepping up to help.
As television heavyweight "Seinfeld" returns to prime time this week, viewers are reminded of the impact sitcoms have on pop-culture psyche -- and their contributions to our vocabulary.
It makes all the political sense in the world: take your wedge issues -- abortion, same-sex marriage and stem-cell research -- and aim them at a population whose membership in the Roman Catholic Church and other Christian churches exceeds 90%.
IN THE EARLY 1990s, WANG ZHIDONG JUMPED INTO THE SEA, as the saying goes. The Beijing University graduate left a secure job to set up his own firm in an abandoned school near a street so crowded wi...
Here's an investment strategy to help counter the slowing economy: Identify a fast-growing industry and single out the one player that dominates that flourishing market. Adding shares of such a com...
Here's an investment strategy to help counter the slowing economy: Identify a fast-growing industry and single out the one player that dominates that flourishing market.
An advocacy group Friday accused sandwich chain Subway Restaurants of being "anti-American" because the tray liners that the company is currently using in Germany display an obese Statute of Liberty and a German word that it claims is a pejorative term for Americans.
Juan Catalan has never watched "Curb Your Enthusiasm," the HBO comedy series starring comedian Larry David. "I don't even have HBO," he says with an easy laugh.
Forget about that dream vacation at the beach for a moment. If you are a student, between jobs, or just ready for a change, don't pass on a chance to spend a few weeks or a few months working overseas.
Scottish Premier League referee Stuart Dougal has been fined for swearing at Rangers midfielder Christian Nerlinger in their win at Partick Thistle last month.
FCC Commissioner Michael Powell said Wednesday he is calling for a dramatic increase in fines for broadcasters that allow the "F-word" and other obscenities on the air.
Once a decade, Merriam-Webster rewrites its best-selling collegiate dictionary, adding new words, new definitions of old words and specialized words that have become part of everyday life. These da...
Didier Benchimol lives in Paris. He grew up in Paris. He went to college in Paris. He runs a company founded in Paris and based in Paris. But from the moment he gets to work in the morning till he ...
There is no easy way to spot financial trouble before it occurs, but there are telltale signs that the risk of a rout is higher than a company's stock price might suggest. And you don't necessarily...
If you've noticed a series of brightly colored ads lately--everywhere from the New York Times to Fox TV--they're the leading edge of the latest Internet invasion. Spain's Terra Networks, one of the...
There's been a lot of bad news out there in the world economy lately. Supposed economic superpowers like Germany and Japan have fallen on hard times; Asian tigers that thought the future belonged t...
When Nely Galan was a high school sophomore, she wrote a letter to Seventeen magazine about her rough experiences in an all-girl Catholic school. The editors were so impressed that they gave her a ...
Ana Hernandez, 23, a pharmacist's assistant, and her husband Jose, 21, a maintenance worker at Disney World, speak English while at work in Orlando. But when they learned they were expecting twins ...
For the past 2 1/2 years, fledgling television networks UPN and WB have been fighting each other for the title of "fifth network." Both claim higher ratings and better distribution, and both have b...
Among the K-12 set, Japanese language instruction is on the increase. The Japan Foundation Language Center reports that more than 1,700 public and private schools in the U.S. now offer Japanese, do...
WHO SAYS American companies can't compete against Japanese giants on their home turf? In the past three years U.S. semiconductor makers have nearly doubled their market share in Japan, to 20%, and ...
In which Kindly Dr. Keeping Up deconstructs a sacred text: the latest fund- raising letter to alums of Harvard and Radcliffe, or is it Radcliffe and Harvard? Dear Kindly: What's all this then about...
Harlan Hubbard was eating breakfast in Zurich when half his vision suddenly blacked out, like a partial eclipse of the sun. The clerk at the five-star hotel recommended a nearby doctor who unfortun...
It is again time to argue with E. D. Hirsch Jr., professor of English at the University of Virginia. You will possibly recall him as the author of a readable 1987 best-seller about ''cultural liter...
WHEN IT comes to Hispanic marketing, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Remember Braniff's blooper? The airline's ads told Hispanics to fly en cuero -- or ''naked.'' Tropicana advertised jugo...
CONSIDER the Japanese salaryman. Along with tens of thousands of his countrymen, he comes to live and to work in America. His migration is born of spectacular success -- the rise of his homeland as...
What's wrong with Canada? It is richer in resources on a per capita basis than the United States, spends much less on defense, and has no large underclass. Yet Canada's standard of living is only a...
STUCK WITH dusty old computer programs that are incompatible with the latest hardware? Want to peddle military software to the Army, but your package doesn't meet the Defense Department's new progr...
First there were the twins CAD and CAM, computer-aided design and computer- aided manufacturing, software systems linked with computer work stations to speed the conception and production of all so...
July was a hectic month for Lexicon, a small manufacturer of electronic terminals and modems that link computers over phone lines. In less than two weeks the Fort Lauderdale, Florida, company was s...
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