Last Saturday, 3 September, doghousereilly linked to an article on BoingBoing which pointed out that an Army Times story published on 2 September referred to some of the survivors of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans as "insurgents" because they committed violence against the troops sent to aid and relocate them. Xeni Jardin, the technology correspondent for NPR ( Read more... )

I've known for quite some time now that, contrary to the line that was being pushed in the newspapers and by my so-called "guidance counselors" when I was preparing to graduate from high school and enter university, American businesses really don't give a good goddamn about their workers being proficient in the English language. In point of fact, ( Read more... )

Quiz discovered on agentelrond's journal:

Your Linguistic Profile:

75% General American English
15% Upper Midwestern
5% Midwestern
5% Yankee
0% Dixie

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

Wow: I'm even a middle-of-the-road generalist in the way I talk. Might explain why some of the speech and writing habits of my co-workers drives me right ( Read more... )