ALL of 7 results for "Language"
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How to annoy a lawyer
June 1996 • 875 words • City of Words
Along with the circulars and invoices and renewal notices in each day’s post—the pleas, demands, rebukes and invitations from persons known and unknown (including, just… more»
The lives of Brandon
5 July 1996 • 897 words • City of Words
Pamela Anderson, star of Baywatch, the TV drama about lifeguards in California, gave birth the other day. The babe of babes—to borrow her tabloid cognomen—had… more»
Logging on to pentecost.com
23 February 1998 • 750 words • City of Words
As we approach the millennium the new internet plaything—handier than hypertext, more fun than a virtual pet—is automatic translation, which now comes free with the… more»
Other Americas
7 September 1998 • 1,397 words • City of Words
A reader in Ecuador takes me to task over the use of the word “American”. Why, asks Lincoln Reyes, is it routine to use this… more»
The return of deep throat
2 February 1998 • 848 words • City of Words
The White House sex scandal can’t be said to have advanced the cause of truth in politics; but it has staked out, for better or… more»
Tower of Babel, miracle of Pentecost
23 February 1997 • 1,122 words • City of Words
English—our genial latinised low German vernacular—has become a world-conquering, universal language—or as close to universal as the world has yet seen. A quarter of the… more»
Translating Caetano
2001 • 4,425 words • Reportage & Criticism
In the late 1980s I was living in Salvador da Bahia, the old capital of Brazil, studying Portuguese. I didn’t spend much time in class. There… more»
