You speak the language but do you speak the money?
What intrigues me is how we can all speak the same language, use exactly the same words, and still mean ...
Thursday, September 10, 2026
Tag: language
Australia’s quiet achiever: English language colleges at a crossroads
I didn’t begin my career as a CEO. Like thousands of others in international education, I began in a classroom. ...
Wix wonderkid launches large language model
Since Wix.com Ltd. (Nasdaq: WIX) bought Base44 last year, the acquisition has become its main growth engine. In May ...
A 65-year-old programming language called COBOL still quietly runs over $3 trillion in banking transactions every single day — and because the original engineers are retiring fast, banks are scrambling to pay younger coders fortunes just to keep the ancient code from collapsing
The strange thing about COBOL is not simply that it still exists. Old technologies survive everywhere. The stranger fact is ...
Irish ELT providers hail new rules for language students moving to HE
Stakeholders have welcomed the introduction of a temporary Stamp 2 bridging permission as a positive step for international students progressing ...
Warwick and Reading rebrand foundation and language provision as Global Academies
While the name change was developed independently at each university, leaders at both institutions told The PIE News they arrived ...
Williamson Found Its Mark: New Data on Functional Claim Language, 1976-2026
by Dennis Crouch Twelve years ago I posted a chart on Patently-O tracking three patterns of functional claim language across ...
MPs and university leaders crowned winners of 2026 Duolingo Language Challenge
The annual initiative, organised by Duolingo in partnership with the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Modern Languages, saw participants collectively studying ...
The loneliest sentence in the English language isn’t ‘I’m alone’ — it’s ‘never mind, it doesn’t matter’
Why we swallow our words When someone says “never mind, it doesn’t matter,” they’re rarely talking about the topic itself. ...
I’m 66 and my adult son sent me a text last Sunday that just said “thinking of you, hope your weekend is nice” — and I read it four times trying to understand why it had landed so hard — and I finally realized it was because he wasn’t asking me for anything, he was just reaching, and I’d apparently reached a point in my life where being reached for without purpose felt like receiving a gift in a language I’d forgotten I spoke
I was sitting at the kitchen table Sunday afternoon, second cup of coffee going cold, when my phone buzzed. A ...
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