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China's rise named decade's most read news story
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 2 days ago
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The rise of China as an economic superpower was the most read news story of the past decade, surpassing the Iraq War and the attacks of Sept. 11, according to an analysis by a U.S.-based media tracking group. The Global Language Monitor, which uses an...
Tags: China, Los Angeles, Global Language Monitor, War Conflict, Iraq War, War on Terrorism, Politics, Human communication, Tsunami, Iraq, Modern history, invasion of Iraq, Language, Linguistics, Disaster Accident, Iraq ￢ﾀﾓ United States relations, Indian Ocean earthquake
‘Twitter’ the most-searched term of 2009
Twitter, the top social network, now tops all other in the year searches. Although the year 2009 has not yet ended but Microsoft says ‘Twitter’ was among the top searches of 2009 on its new search engine Bing and a company which monitors...
Tags: bing, GLM, Microsoft, search engine, serach item, social networks, swine flu, top searches, Twitter, allnews, Washingtonville, Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, Patrick Swayze, Linguistics, Real-time web, Global Language Monitor, Kidnapping of Jaycee Lee Dugard, Human communication, Entertainment Culture, Language, tops words, Paul Payack
'Global warming' chosen as word of decade
Toronto :: Canada | 8 days ago
Credibility Global warming" is the word of the decade, according to the Global Language Monitor, as the term weighed heavily over both international political discourse and helped popularize the green movement. The list of the Top 25 words contains a number that...
Tags: global warming, Paul Keen, Canada, Toronto, Bailout, Global Language Monitor, Climate change, Human communication, Language, Linguistics, Slumdog Millionaire
"Twitter" Is The Most Used Word Of 2009!
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 10 days ago
Credibility Texas-based algorithms company the Global Language Monitor has announced that the social networking site took the top spot for most used word with " Barack Obama " and "H1N1" in second and third respectively. "Stimulus" took number four with "vampire"...
Tags: twitter, social media, used words, San Francisco, Real-time web, Barack Obama, Animal virology, Global Language Monitor, Human communication, Swine influenza, Technology Internet, flu pandemic, Death of Michael Jackson, Influenza pandemics, Influenza, Blog hosting services, Pandemics, Language, Influenza A virus subtype H1N1, Online social networking, Linguistics, Entertainment Culture
Sign language for NSG commandos
The NSG Commandos of Tamil Nadu would be learning sign language from the school for the Deaf and Dumb – the expertise that they would acquire through this specialized training would help them keep in touch with their team members when tracking down...
Tags: NSG Commandos, sign language, school for the Deaf and Dumb, snipers, weapons, India, Chennai, Speech and language pathology, Commandos, Deaf culture, Deafness, Language, allnews
Listening Vs. Reading - Which skill is more important for language learning?
Ho Chi Minh City :: Vietnam | 15 days ago
Credibility Someone who read my language acquisition articles recently wrote in to ask me if I believed reading was more important than speaking, and if I believed you could learn pronunciation from reading. I don't think I ever said that reading was more important...
Tags: language learned, asian language, Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City, Vocabulary, Vietnamese language, Language acquisition, Language, Lexicography
Words catch global mood
Glasgow :: United Kingdom | 17 days ago
Credibility Of the top 12 entries, compiled by the Global Language Monitor, all had negative connotations – with the first neutral entry being "King of Pop", a reference to Michael Jackson. Texas-based GLM monitors the internet, media and data-bases to estimate how...
Tags: global mood, United Kingdom, Glasgow, Human communication, Language, Linguistics, Climate change, War Conflict, Global warming, Carbon finance, Global Language Monitor, Environment, Technology Internet
Global warming, 9/11, Obama top words of the decade
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 21 days ago
Credibility Concerns over the environment and terrorism have not only affected how people lived in the past decade but also their language, with "global warming" and "9/11" topping a list of the most used words of the 2000s. The Global Language Monitor, which uses...
Tags: Los Angeles, Linguistics, Truthiness, Barack Obama, Chinglish, Bailout, Global Language Monitor, Human communication, Language, Environment
Two Steps Back for Latinos
A couple of developments erupted this week to let us know Hispanics have not quite earned full acknowledgement of such oddball concepts as civil rights and basic dignity. First, in New Mexico, a hotel owner informed his Hispanic workers that, henceforth,...
Tags: latino, hispanic, Larry Whitten, New Mexico, hotel owners, language, Dallas, traffic ticket, Spanish
Human Communication and my Journey to Embrace it
Writing has not always been one of favorite ways in which to kill time. It took multiple thought sessions before I started to realize what our ways to communicate with each other meant to me, but as I got older I could see the potential in it. Whether...
Tags: Human, communication, language, embrace writing
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