language

Hey, I'm currently a high school student writing a research paper for this college class I'm taking over the summer. We have to study and analyze an online community and its characteristics. I'd love some insight on how exactly your point system works, how to become a member, the specific...

What is another expression for 'cold turkey?' As in - quitting something suddenly and instantly sans any kind of weaning process? I hate that expression (and never really understood it anyway) but can't think of any other way to say it... :/

Yesterday I was reading an article about a girl who, by the time she started school, hadn't yet developed language. (She was obviously excluded and bullied a by the other children). Eventually, after trying everything else, her parents sent her to an unorthodox speech therapist who slowly...

Copspeak: 7 Ways Journalists Use Police Jargon to Obscure the Truth

What violent and offensive things are you saying every day without knowing it? With all the "Politically Correct" terminology out there, one group remains regularly slandered, victimized and devalued in our everyday speech. This video looks into the linguistic oversights we all take for granted...

I came across this somewhere else - do the quiz and help train the researchers' algorithm. This is what it told me at the end: http://www.gameswithwords.org/WhichEnglish/

Read it all here.