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Commentary on how language is used and abused in advertising, politics, the law, and other areas of public life. You can think of it as a linguistic self defense course in which you and I prepare ourselves to do battle with the forces of linguistic evil.

Misinterpreting bad punctuation since 2005

About the cultural and linguistic gap between English and Russian, life in Saint Petersburg, teaching and learning languages.

Games, ideas, songs, visions

... designed to give language learners the opportunity to place greater emphasis on building vocabulary using a long-term strategy – and to assess the effects of that opportunity on the enjoyment and efficiency of the language learning experience.