Author: Shweta Shankar
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7 Patronizing Phrases at Work To Avoid—And What To Say Instead
Korin Miller・July 21, 2020 t’s easy to know if someone has directed patronising phrases at work toward you. Being talked down to can leave you feeling hurt, confused, and understandably...
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William Blake: The greatest visionary in 200 years
By Kelly Grovier10th September 2019 A champion of the imagination, William Blake is celebrated in a new retrospective at London’s Tate Britain. Kelly Grovier looks at how the painter and...
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The Only Surviving Script Written by Shakespeare Is Now Online
in Literature | July 14th, 2020 Four years ago, when the world commemorated the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death, some marked the event with reference to a dramatic work hardly anyone’s ever...
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How the English language became such a mess
By James Harbeck8th June 2015 You may have seen a poem by Gerard Nolst Trinité called The Chaos. It starts like this: Dearest creature in creation Studying English pronunciation, I...
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The language the government tried to suppress
By James Harbeck19th September 2016 Most of Singapore’s population speak the unofficial language or dialect known as Singlish. But why would the government rather it went away? James Harbeck takes...
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The secret “anti-languages” you’re not supposed to know
By David Robson12th February 2016 From London to Timbuktu, there is a teeming underworld of rebellious “anti-societies” who speak a mercurial, ever-changing code. Their words are, quite literally, gobbledygook designed...