Spanish language on American TV
As Hispanics have grown into the largest U.S. minority, it’s now very common to hear Spanish being spoken in American TV series, for the sake of authenticity. But not all …
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A grammatical error in Indonesia’s slogan to promote tourism
The new slogan of Indonesia’s new tourist campaign, which reads “Celebrating 100 years of nation’s awakening”, should instead be written as “national awakening” and not “nation’s awakening”. Unfortunately the slogan …
Read MoreLanguages die every day
Like living beings, languages are born, live and die. But the problem is, many of them just die, and at a dramatically increasing rate. Linguists estimate that there are about …
Read MoreInternet domain names in eleven new languages
More good news for Asia (and others) is the new possibility of creating domain names made up completely of non Latin characters. As mentioned on the ICANN website: Next Monday, …
Read MoreAsia gets its own name on the Internet!
At first, there was only .com, .net, .org and a few others, like .gov or .edu. Each country also had its own TLD (top level domain), .fr for france or …
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