English language
English instruction in Qatar's schools, according to government plans, is to tailor students for higher education and jobs in English-language workplaces and universities.
Walter Cronkite and Frank McCourt taught us the power of words, simple and direct, and a story well told. Let us hope that their passing is not the end of such grace and literacy.
Why isn't math a natural part of all the subjects taught -- as in the case of say .... English?
WHAT'S HAPPENING
As an English major and a person who's traveled extensively, I am delighted to hear President Obama honor the English language instead of butchering it.
As we all know, the first thing anyone ever asks to learn in a foreign language is how to insult a total stranger's parentage in as disgusting a manner as possible. Why is this?
In a recent column, Ben Schott invited "co-vocabularists to exorcise their linguistic pet peeves and vocab vexations by posting a comment." If you are a language lover, you will understand.
Today, at this very moment of crisis where so much is at risk we stand ready to undermine one of the fundamental pillars of our society -- the humanities.
Though I told every one of my drivers that he or she could practice their English with me, only one took advantage. "Light turn! Leff turn! Stop!" one driver exclaimed.
So what is it about the apostrophe? How come so few people know how to use it? And why do I get so irritated by its misuse? I love the English language, and hate to see it being abused.