On the Milestones blog - Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:55:59 +0000
There are a couple of new and interesting posts up at the Milestone Documents blog. First, Barry Alfonso has written a piece on William Jennings Bryan’s “Cross of Gold” speech from 1896, noting that Bryan’s scorching piece makes our current political discourse seem very safe and generic by comparison. One of the striking things about [...] Read more.
Milestone Documents Blog now live - Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:45:30 +0000
As I have previously noted in this space, we are at work on a companion Web site for our “Milestone Documents” series, www.MilestoneDocuments.com. While that site is still under construction, I’m pleased today to announce that one component of the site has gone live: the Milestone Documents blog. This group blog brings together several dozen [...] Read more.
The Atlantic on the Internet making us stupid - Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:38:58 +0000
A couple of people have sent me the link to the cover story in the latest issue of The Atlantic, which is called “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” The article, written by Nicholas Carr, is a fascinating read. He comments on how the habits of browsing the Internet–skimming information and endlessly clicking on hyperlinks to follow [...] Read more.
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You Get What You Pay For? - Tue, 06 May 2008 13:26:40 +0000
From the Chronicle of Higher Education comes news that Princeton University Press has recalled a spring title (Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore?s Eastern District, by Peter Moskoshat) that was found to have some 90 grammatical and spelling errors in its 245 pages. The press’s director, Peter Dougherty, stated that the book had [...] Read more.
New English - Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:33:01 +0000
In “The Queen’s English Is Dead,” Annalee Newitz discusses the implications of David Graddol’s notion that native English speakers are a dying breed. By 2010, according to his estimates, 2 billion people will be speaking English, but only 350 million will claim English as their mother tongue. This burgeoning globalization, coupled with the wide use [...] Read more.
What?s That You Say? - Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:30:33 +0000
In this fun video the original English (which appears in subtitle form) was translated into French and then into German and then back to French and back to English by a popular Web translating service.
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