Pope Francis on Tuesday used simple, straightforward language, unlike the at-times baroque rhetoric of the more-academically inclined Benedict.

WSJ: Pope Francis Celebrates Inaugural Mass

Pope Francis on Wednesday used simple, straightforward language, unlike the at-times baroque rhetoric of the more-academically inclined Benedict.

WSJ: Pope Celebrates Inaugural Mass

Unlike Latin and French, German was never the language of diplomacy and culture.

ECONOMIST: The vain battle to promote German

Unlike Mr Berlusconi, Mr Prodi and his advisers talk the right language about the need for more competition.

ECONOMIST: Italy's election

Unlike many other peoples in history, the Hungarians have survived as a separate nation with an Asiatic language like no other in Europe, boxed in among the Germans, the Russians and the southern Slavs.

ECONOMIST: On being Hungarian

But unlike joining the euro and having to give up your currency, you need not give up your own language to use English.

ECONOMIST: South Korea's debt