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Stories about: grammar

SMS Texting May Improve Language Skills The latest research on the psychology behind massive text messaging shows that parents should carefully reconsider taking their teens' cell phones away from them. According to a recent paper published in the latest issue of the journal British Journal of Developmental Psychology, texting may very well be helping... 25 February 2009 10:04 GMT Application for Better Grammar Launched Writing hastily often leads to a couple of grammar mistakes, if you're not feeling like "indulging" yourself to read again and correct it all. All of this proves to be a nuisance if the message you have written this way is sent to somebody who is, say, your English teacher, or just somebody in a bad mood that fe... 22 January 2008 06:42 GMT The Most Primitive Language? All languages are supposed to derive from an ancestral sole language. Or at least they followed some strict grammar rules during their evolution, as synthesized by the Universal Grammar (UG), which made famous in the 1960s Noam Chomsky, MIT professor of linguistics. Now a vivid debate was started by the work of Dani... 24 April 2007 06:07 GMT