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• Ten Most Hated Words on the Internet

  June 22nd, 2007 | Tags: English, Internet, Language

  OK, if this poll by British pollsters of YouGov is accurate — then prepare to cringe. The ten most hated words on the Internet — based on a poll of 2,091 adults — reports the following words making the list: folksonomy blogosphere blog netiquette blook webinar vlog social networking cookie wiki Folksonomy earns its rightful place on the top. Can’t tell you how much work it [...]

• Text Messaging Affects Written Language

  May 3rd, 2007 | Tags: instant messaging, Language, sms, texting, Writing

  CNN.com quotes the State Examination Commission, which said, “The emergence of the mobile phone and the rise of text messaging as a popular means of communication would appear to have impacted on standards of writing as evidenced in the responses of candidates.” Apparently, students write short sentences using simple tenses and a limited vocabulary. Maybe my [...]

• Bad English in Beijing Gets Official Attention

  April 20th, 2007 | Tags: Beijing, English, grammar, Language

  A sign in Beijing’s airport says, “Careful Landslip Attention Security.” With the Olympics coming to Beijing in 2008 and over 500,000 foreigners, officials promise to take care of the bad grammar according to this CNN article. They’ve gone so far to ask for help from the public to watch for poor grammar. Other poorly translated [...]

• Pluto Gets Plutoed

  January 19th, 2007 | Tags: English, Language, words

  Thanks to poor Pluto’s recent declassification as a planet, the American Dialect Society — an organization founded in 1889 that “is dedicated to the study of the English language in North America, and of other languages, or dialects of other languages, influencing it or influenced by” — picked “plutoed” as its 2006 Word of the [...]

• Word Resources

  May 17th, 2006 | Tags: Language, Writing

  Whenever someone has a baby, I always ask how they came up with the baby’s name. Stories have ranged from fascinating to “just ’cause” (we liked the name). Amazing how English words coming from 26 letters of the alphabet have led to unforgettable plays, poetry, fiction, non-fiction, songs, movies, and muscials. Even a simple letter, [...]

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