All 600 students were given two options: retake the exam, or have their final semester grade calculated without the exam.
The song’s lyrics are practically gibberish, but India can’t stop listening.
Thursday’s links talk artistic conflicts, rewritten history and the language barrier.
Full disclosure straight off: your writer is a Brit, but that doesn’t mean he can’t poke fun at both sides in this apparent debate.
Another Jane Austen manuscript is on the loose. Does that mean we’ll see more of her delightful spelling mistakes?
You already know what they mean. Now the dictionary can back you up.
“They are dragging us into the dark ages. There are some people in Ireland that have to get over the whole English thing.” — TOM O’NEILL, a 34-year-old salesman in Ireland, on violence in his home country associated with Queen Elizabeth’s visit (via Vancouver Sun)
This morning, two billion people were estimated to tune in to the nuptials. So where did they watch them?
Some would argue that one doctoral degree is enough to put you at the top of the academic pecking order. But it looks like James Franco isn’t stopping at just one.
“Great Firewall” or not, Chinese Web surfers have overtaken the intertubes and so, it turns out, has their mother tongue. The stats are in: Chinese is poised to outpace English as the dominant language online.
