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not A capital Matter anymore – proper or Common, noun’s A Noun

By Fri, Apr 27, 2012 2:03AM UTC View Comments

What is the difference between lower caste and Lower Caste? Or, between Upper Castes and upper castes? For that matter is a bill any different from a Bill and / or is the Act the same as act? Several weeks ago I had written a post on the declining standards of news writing in India....

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Indian media: Whose language is it anyway?

By Sat, Mar 03, 2012 1:29PM UTC View Comments

Some days ago, a respected communicator and commentator tweeted about the language used in a Times of India report. The report was on a high-speed crash that killed two at the lonely time of 1.30 am on a posh South Delhi road. On February 26, while returning from a wedding, a father was possibly showing tricks...

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Korean interview with Australian ESL teacher

By Sat, Aug 06, 2011 11:04AM UTC View Comments

Original article in Korean is at this link. Korea is in a situation where you cannot live well if you cannot speak English, where you need a high TOIC score to get a job, where everyone competes over English speaking ability. The English fever begins at a young age and undergraduate students spend three months...

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