English: The New Latin?

English is the one language that can be found in every corner of the world. It is taught and recognized on every continent and its prevalence is much greater than
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The Peritextual Environment

There is a big difference between competence in a field and encyclopedic knowledge. “Competence in the field” is everything related to the concrete information related to the technical aspects of
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The Other United States

The official name for Mexico is: the United States of Mexico, as given by its Constitution, ratified on the 4th of October, 1824. In its strictest sense, and this is
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The Newest Grammar Hounds

Grammar hounds, and I include myself in this list, are those who are so obsessed with proper presentation of a language that even the slightest mistake or oversight in a
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Common Features of Languages

To begin with, a characteristic that is shared by all languages is that they are arbitrary, which is in its most elemental form is demonstrated in the absence of a
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