Language
Dickens would rotate in his grave at such language
Peter Craven Scriptwriters should give up on trying to improve the words of masters.
Irritating language I want to see banned. Literally.
Michael Shmith In the spirit of John Rentoul, here is my A-Z of words and phrases to avoid in 2012.
No quick fix in any language
Joseph Lo Bianco, Colin Nettelbeck, John Hajek, Anya Wood Reform is required on how second languages are taught and learnt.
The curse of the foul-language law
Karl Quinn With a clampdown on swearing in public places in Victoria, Karl Quinn asks, frankly, what's the point in even going out?
Language clarity can be a mark of individualism
Brendan Black I'm not ashamed to admit that I love dictionaries, not only for correcting spelling or meaning, but also as a repository of history.
Language-mangling pollies infesting every level of guvment
Dean Frenkel The secrets of speech are revealed not in what they say, but how they say it.
Language reflects a dark side of surrogacy
Michelle Higgins The newest term to describe the birth mother in a surrogacy arrangement is ''gestational carrier''.
When words aren't enough, language can EVOOlve into something ugly
Michael Shmith Sloppy expressions need to be refudiated before they take over.
Language rules are meant to be broken
Brendan Black For linguists, the statement "language change is inevitable" is uncontroversial. Yet we're constantly told that teenagers (and, it seems, celebrity chefs http://www.theage.com.
Language you can swear by
Kate Holden Close your ears, young Gertrude, I am about to swear. Actually, I'm about to say how much I love swearing. I do, I enjoy it immensely.
The, like, language of like, like, and why men don't need to say sorry
Simon Webster HAPPY couples sound alike, American researchers have found. The more psychologically connected two people are, the more they copy each other's slang and speech patterns.
Language is power; let us have ours
Aden Ridgeway Once while travelling through many remote communities on the Tanami Track, an old man said to me, "Come speak my language and I'll speak yours".
Language like this should be put to the torch
Don Watson 'They leapt from mountain peak to mountain peak or far out into the lower country, lighting forests six or seven miles in advance of the main fires.
Industry's learning difficulty
When a federal Coalition MP says a group of public employees deserve to have their wages more than doubled to a top rate of $150,000, listeners are bound to wonder if their hearing is faulty.
Macquarie's mitts all over our supposed Strine
Germaine Greer Australian academics have been laying down the law about my mother-tongue — oops, I mean, of course, mother tongue.
Haven for kids living on the edge
Charles Waterstreet Atlanta and I travelled in a taxi driven by a fat man who spoke no English.
You'd have to be an idiot to utter any of these phrases. Just sayin'
Richard Glover Not enough effort has gone into recording the most annoying phrases in the language.
Deportee belongs back in Australia
Jason Pobjoy Labor can add meeting human rights obligations to its list of broken promises.
It's up to us to help young Africans fit in
Denise Ryan Fear is stopping many from welcoming our city's newest migrants.
A whole lot of dollars, but no sense of restraint
Bruce Guthrie In the late 19th century, in an essay entitled Gospel of Wealth, American industrialist Andrew Carnegie offered advice on how the rich should behave: Provide moderately, give generously and live...
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