This article appeared on the front page of the Vancouver Province, implicating my friend and hockey coach Dusan Benicky in sexual assault of a minor, based on allegations about an event that allegedly happened over 15 years ago to an unidentified...

I, and others, have  commented here about the way some words  lack meaning and have become  mere ornaments. We sprinkle our discussion with these words to dazzle others, to show how deep, how moral, how sincere we are, as if the fact that we use...

I essentially only use bilingual dictionaries when reading in a foreign language, even for languages that I speak well. I have never understood the arguments in favour of using monolingual dictionaries.  I guess it depends on how you use...

Anti-moon is a popular website where language learners discuss and debate issues surrounding languages and language learning. The learning philosophy at anti-moon has many things in common with what I believe; the importance of input, the...

My wife is away for a week, so the last two nights, after cooking myself a nice dinner, I watched two movies, one French and one Czech. Both were refreshing departures from the kind of Hollywood movie that has basically turned me off movies. One was...