The high priests of education promote formalism because it seems more impressive and more authoritative. Students, however, live in their own world of distinctively informal language, and teenagers ...
The high priests of education promote formalism because it seems more impressive and more authoritative. Students, however, live in their own world of distinctively informal language, and teenagers ...
Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. When we talked about “bizarro” words last week, we promised to talk this week about the difference between ...
Biologists in particular are writing their papers in a less formal style. We are not supposed to use first-person pronouns, and contractions aren’t allowed. These rules also discourage unattended ...
If you walk into one of the smaller dining rooms in Thorne Hall at dinner time, there’s a good chance you’ll hear a language other than English being spoken. If you walk into one of the smaller dining ...
Japanese actor Sato Takeru is facing criticism from Korean viewers due to his rude behavior. His informal language and comments about hierarchy, which seemed excessive for a first meeting, have become ...