Published on May,22 2012 - by The Daily Telegraph
It was a romantic tale like no other, told in letters somehow smuggled between a young woman and her lover, imprisoned 1,500 miles away in Stalin’s Gulag. In this excerpt from his new book, Orlando Figes reveals how S ...
Published on May,21 2012 - by The Daily Telegraph
The Queen’s English has changed over 60 years, and much for the better, argues the 'Countdown’ word guru. The notion of “Queen’s English” is usually applied to our pronunciation. Taking the term at its most literal, ...
Published on May,16 2012 - by The Daily Telegraph
Carlos Fuentes, who has died aged 83, was the most influential Mexican novelist of his generation and a catalyst for the literary explosion that introduced Latin American writers to a worldwide audience. Alongside ...
Published on May,15 2012 - by Agence France Presse
Carlos Fuentes, who died Tuesday aged 83, was one of the Spanish-speaking world's best known writers, famous for his prolific output and his use of experimental language.President Felipe Calderon announced the writer's ...
Published on May,13 2012 - by Agence France Presse
...cularly pointed to the International Mother Language Institute set up in 2001 to preserve and study the ethnic languages spoken in Bangladesh and across the world.But critics say such institutions are mere window dressin...
Published on May,10 2012 - by The Los Angeles Times
LOS ANGELES _ At first, the email rants from readers expressing their distress about Hollywood's increasing reliance on foul language were a mere trickle. Like the way one couple lost faith in one of their favorite ...
Published on May,03 2012 - by The Daily Telegraph
...n developed his proposals, which conferred an authority that often irritated his adversary". Damon Mayaffre, a linguist specialised in political discourse, said that "on a lexical level, its the most violent debate ever ...
Published on May,03 2012 - by The Daily Telegraph
...urred to me that we wouldn’t live here for ever.” With his parentage and his linguistic skills (he speaks four languages) it was assumed Wilkie would go into the diplomatic service. But in his final vacation from Oxford,...
Published on May,02 2012 - by The Daily Telegraph
Experimental novelist who translated German decrypts at Bletchley Park but left her own readers baffled CHRISTINE BROOKE-ROSE, who has died aged 89, began her career as an author conventionally enough in the 1950s by ...
Published on May,01 2012 - by The Daily Telegraph
...rmation. As a result, the service has a database of phrases which can be matched to their equivalents in other languages. "Once you have a finite list of phrases you can translate, the database is just serving up numbers...