Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. When we talked about “bizarro” words last week, we promised to talk this week about the difference between “colloquial ...
Speaker 1: We need to change how we speak depending on the situation and who we're speaking to. When we don't know people very well we need to use more formal language. Speaker 2: (TO OTHER PEOPLE) ...
Far too many students find schoolwork to be boring. There are multiple reasons, but a main one is that academic instruction is typically framed in plain-vanilla, academic language and style. In the ...
‘Language is power, power to communicate, express your ideas, and be a part of society,’ said Claudette Vigueras, a migrant from Mexico, during the opening of a conference on ‘Informal language ...
Speaker 1: We need to change how we speak depending on the situation and who we're speaking to. When we don't know people very well we need to use more formal language. Speaker 2: (TO OTHER PEOPLE) ...
Far too many students find schoolwork to be boring. There are multiple reasons, but a main one is that academic instruction is typically framed in plain-vanilla, academic language and style. In the ...