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· May, 2013
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Stories about Language from May, 2013

30 May 2013

Chinese Motherland or Otherland?

Written by Oiwan Lam · ·

27 May 2013

Alphabets Bring Joy and Sadness to Bulgaria

Written by Nevena Borisova · ·

16 May 2013

Dirty Words Russian Girls Can’t Say on the Internet

Written by Kevin Rothrock ·
RuNet Echo

Earlier this week, opposition figure Maria Baronova penned an open letter to writer and political dissident Eduard Limonov, wherein she dropped a sexual bombshell. Her text unabashedly refers to “masturbating...

14 May 2013

24 Untranslatable Expressions

Written by Gabriela Garcia Calderon Orbe · ·

Toy Dolls that Speak African Languages

Written by Ndesanjo Macha · ·

8 May 2013

Chinese Communist Party's Benevolence?

Written by Oiwan Lam · ·

7 May 2013

Spanish Blogger Goes After Anti-Catalan Prejudice in Viral Video

Written by Cristina Simón ·

A YouTube video featuring an Andalusian Spanish blogger criticizing xenophobic attitudes in Spain toward the region of Catalonia has gone viral.

6 May 2013

French a Must in Nigerian Military

Written by Abdoulaye Bah · ·

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