Sentence examples for language wars from inspiring English sources

Henry Hitchings's books include The Language Wars.

The Language Wars: A History of Proper English.

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Most of the language wars in broadcasting are fought in the name of children.

But for Wallace, the essay also became a way to insert himself into the language wars — and thus into the question of American democracy.

This dispute is the subject of "The Language Wars: A History of Proper English" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), by the English journalist Henry Hitchings, a convinced descriptivist.

"We were caught in a language war," he said during a recent visit to New York.

Robin Tolmach Lakoff, a professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of "The Language War," a book about the unintentional overtones of language, said, "Whoever gives the name has control over it".

This week her colleagues in the four-party cabinet, which rarely deals with education, cautiously backed her idea that all Swiss children should have a fair command of three languages, including two of the country's own.But the language war has barely begun.

The performing arts, and most particularly theatre and music – especially popular music – are our most immediate expressions of what it is like to be an Australian at this time in our history, and changes – in immigration, education and language, war, recession, crime, climate change – are all part of the ecosystem from which the artist can draw.

The war raged through the 1990s and officially ended in 2002, when the then President, Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, memorably said in the Krio language, "war don don" - "the war is over".