The debate about proper ways to use the English language occurs wherever English is read, written or spoken.
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Ian Brookes, consultant editor at Collins English Dictionary, agrees the figurative and metaphorical use of the word crept into the English language as an intensifier.
But unlike joining the euro and having to give up your currency, you need not give up your own language to use English.
The first to move east were the most international European companies, which tended to use English as their international working language regardless of their base.
Anyone in the world may use Schwab's English-language website (www.schwab.com) to open a U.S. dollar-based account and trade U.S. stocks assuming, of course, that the financial regulators in the customer's home country approve.
That means they have to rely on what is known as "relay" interpretation: interpreters listen to an English-language translation of say a Latvian speech, and use the English version to interpret into other languages.
It is not, he says, because they share some affinity with the U.K. or U.S. but because English is the most convenient language to use.
Since my editors at Forbes always blanch when I use language like that, let me hasten to explain the ideas in normal English.
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When we are communicating with people whose SECONDARY language is English, we need to make sure that we do not use 'figures of speech' and regional terms.
So where universities are building cultures around completion where first-generation college-goers and English-language learners and Pell grant recipients are graduating, we want to use Race to the Top resources to incentivize that behavior.
Dr Tony McEnery, of the University of Lancaster's Department of Linguistics, who has compiled a huge database of modern English usage, says children and teenagers are "quite productive" in their use of abusive language.
The city said its evaluation plans included things like the implementation and use of student feedback surveys as well as specific considerations for teachers who are dealing with students who are English language learners and students with disabilities.
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