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Our language crisis - looking after the way we speak and the way we write

Edit The Malta Independent 21 Jul 2015
By Professor Joseph M. Brincat. What crisis? Our language has never had it so good ... Local publishing is very healthy, thanks to KKM, PIN and SKS, together with many other initiatives, and so is broadcasting with radio and TV channels; even ATMs and Google give us the option to choose Maltese or English. All this, of course, comes at a price ... So, what has gone wrong?.  . Who is to blame? ... Now that Maltese has progressed from diglossia ... ....

Review: An Irish-Speaking Island by Nicholas M Wolf

Edit The Irish Times 20 Jun 2015
Sensitive also to preconceptions implicit in terminology, he notes that “using terms like diglossia has helped to bolster this sense of the passivity of Irish speakers, leading to descriptions of a broad swathe of formal institutional domains in Irish society as self-evidently English-speaking while referring to the settings of Irish-speaking homes and private life as doomed Gaelicised holdouts” ... . should be pressed to speak English ....

SIIA Education Division Announces 2015 Board of Directors (SIIA - Software & Information Industry Association)

Edit noodls 12 Nov 2014
Susan Adelmann, VP Strategic Partnerships, Follett School Solutions Diana Gowen, Alliance Manager, Education Programs, Intel Corporation Education Group Mimi Jett, Chief Executive Officer and Founder, Diglossia Andy Ross, formerly Florida Virtual School - Global Services Division David Stevenson, VP, ......

GOOD WORDS AND BAD - English, written and spoken Mukul Kesavan Some words mean less ...

Edit The Telegraph India 13 Oct 2014
Some words mean less than others. So rum, revenge, soap and winter make sense the moment they’re heard or read. Abut, redoubt, discern and limpid are a bit slower-fused ... they have no purpose outside that game’s narrative ... Thus ... Take accost ... Here it doesn’t work quite so well because English doesn’t embrace this diglossia, this distinction between the written and spoken, the mandarin and the demotic, with as much enthusiasm....
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