Last week we published an article on the phenomenon of ‘peer pressure’ in the German language. However, German does not plough a lonely furrow when it comes to individual members of a group grammatically giving up their identity and being ‘assimilated’ – this strange cyborg behaviour can be found in English grammar, too. Don’t be [...]

To the same extent that e-mail communication facilitates everyday work, it can be a trip hazard, too, that you neither see the people you are communicating with nor hear their voice. I’ve had a first-hand experience of this dilemma this morning when I opened an e-mail asking for picture material for a holiday magazine in [...]