John Munro. has in the past been a chief investigator on ARC-funded projects Many students returning to school this year face a renewed focus on grammar. Just before Christmas, the NSW curriculum was ...

Unlike the carefully scripted dialogue found in most books and movies, the language of everyday interaction tends to be messy and incomplete, full of false starts, interruptions, and people talking ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the broad umbrella of leadership, and everything under it. Grammar is going all to hell, even in the office. That’s what ...

Grammar has been getting attention in the media lately, and for good reason. Because I am over 50 and I was raised by grammar sticklers, I am sympathetic to managers’ complaints about rampant grammar ...

The grammar check feature appears to have been available since at least last month, although Google warns its suggestions might not be 100 percent accurate. The grammar check feature appears to have ...

Good grammar may have came and went. Maybe you've winced at the decline of the past participle. Or folks writing and saying "he had sank" and "she would have went." Perhaps it was the singer Gotye ...

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Whether or not the first humans could speak is still a matter of debate, but most scientists agree that languages have been around for at least 80,000 years. The written word, in contrast, is ...

Some of us never forget the first sentence we conjugated*. Others of us are, like, LOL, WTF? Conjumugation? Unfortunately, it appears the LOLers are encroaching, ruining everything that is good and ...

All the cognitive, emotional, and cultural benefits of picking up another language at any stage of life. Jayk7/Getty Images As the world continues to become increasingly interconnected, ...

Language forms the backbone of communal existence. It doesn't take long to discover this if you've ever traveled to a place where you don't speak the language. "Where is the nearest bathroom?", "How ...