English as it is spoken today will have disappeared in 100 years and could be replaced by a global language called Panglish, researchers claim. New words will form and meanings will change with the most dramatic changes being made by people learning English as a second language. picked by AutumnLotus 7 months ago

Campaigners for the English language on Thursday attacked a growing tendency for "obvious" public information posters, such as a police sign urging people: "Don't Commit Crime." picked by spocksmyhomeboy 1 year ago

An impressive crop circle formation from Boryoung, South Korea. More photos from the original photographers website here picked by pocksucket 4 months ago

Norwegian (here I'm talking about bokmål, the most often-used variety of Norwegian) is a language spoken by about 5 million people in Norway, and is extremely similar to the languages Swedish and Danish. picked by bernardblack 2 months ago

North Korea threatened South Korea with destruction Sunday.

"Everything will be in ashes, not just a sea of fire, if our advanced pre-emptive strike once begins." picked by 2manyusernames 7 months ago

Don't speak English? Don't have the time to master the 30,000 or so words most English speaking people know? Why not simply learn the 850 words you need to converse with anyone (who also knows the 850 words). picked by Boomshank 1 year ago

For a country of about 50 million people, there are a lot of protests in South Korea. With a national average of 11,000 public protests a year, the average South Korean riot policeman is mobilized to contain 85 demonstrations a year. picked by ogri2003 1 year ago

Less than a tenth of China's pilots meet international aviation English standards. picked by kxmk 1 year ago

Obama merely commented about the benefits of Americans learning a second language. A few people took issue with his comments, perhaps they misunderstood or twisted his words. He clarified his comments to show he wasn't some sort of secret anti-english person. picked by BernardBlack 3 months ago

Oh no, here we go. picked by jiggsy 2 years ago

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger told Hispanic journalists that immigrants need to quit watching Spanish language TV if they want to assimilate. picked by VooDooPeacock 1 year ago

This automatic text translator interprets any English phrase back-and-forth into five languages with a final return to the mother tongue. The resulting half-English, half-foreign, and totally non sequitur response bears almost no resemblance to the original. Remember the old game of "Telephone"? Something is lost, and sometimes something is gained. Try it for yourself picked by TraumaMamma 12 months ago

Japanese? Want to learn English? Being mugged by two men? Want to stay in shape? Trapped in the 80s? All at the same time? This language course could be for you then. And in an odd way, it is kind of catchy. picked by pocksucket 10 months ago

The word, which is the scientific name for a protein containing 267 amino acids. It contains 1,846 letters. Take that, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. picked by gratheo 1 year ago

South Korean students who have trouble with school bullies can soon call on the government to provide them with bodyguards.

Hmmm... Kind of like what the South Korean government did in 1950. picked by Bandit 2 years ago

Arabic, Latin, English, Hebrew, Aramaic and Persian are all well known languages, but can there be a language that predates humanity itself by millions of years?

It's only the genetic code, but still an interesting article picked by lostsoul135 2 months ago

Looks like the Poles are going to get a good education then! NOT! picked by topofall 6 months ago