Monthly Archives: August 2013

Stefan Dollinger recently spoke about what the Oxford English Dictionary should do to account for the fact that English is now spoken by more non-native speakers world-wide than it is by native speakers: http://www.montrealgazette.com/life/Oxford+English+Dictionary+mulls+what+gets+what+stays/8781779/story.html

Anne Curzan, a linguist at the University of Michigan, talks about marking students off for “grammatical errors”: http://chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/2013/08/14/dinging-for-grammatical-errors/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en This blog entry is part of “Lingua Franca” of the Chronicle of Higher Education, a blog with a number of good entries.

The writer in The Guardian believes that the word literally should be set aside (at least for a while), not only because it is used in a sense directly opposed to its original meaning (i.e., meaning ‘figuratively’), but also because it … Continue reading →