This would permit other language scripts such as Chinese or Arabic to be used as web addresses.

ECONOMIST: No one controls the internet, but many are determined to try

As Nassim Taleb points out, there is no word in English (or in any other language, ancient or modern) that conveys this idea.

FORBES: Nassim Taleb's 'Antifragile' Celebrates Randomness In People, Markets

The need for speed of e-communications has led to some of this abbreviation in language, as well as the rise of other metadata and media types within the text of our conversations.

FORBES: The Changing Grammar of Communicating Ideas

While this play and "The Universal Language" are highlights, the other four plays in "All in the Timing" are nothing to sneeze at.

WSJ: Parsing a Playwright's Universal Language

With the launch of this blog, when our bloggers and other correspondents have thoughts on the language of politics or business, you will find them at Johnson.

ECONOMIST: Language

It will take this long -- until we no longer have to press one for English and two for any other language.

CNN: McCain stands alone on immigration bill

This, after all, is a country where one in five people - 19% - speak a language other than English in their home.

BBC: The changing face of the average Aussie