Parlez-vous SMS? A new threat to the French language: The baccalauréat exam season approaches, and with it ritual agonising over the standard of French spelling. These days, fingers are pointed not only at progressive teaching, the decline of the dictée or the legacy of May 1968. The new culprit is text-messaging. [Economist]
Cricket’s new wicket: American high schools: The first league, which has its championships next week, is fully subscribed by teens from the far reaches of the former British Empire. [CSM]
An icon reborn: ITS fearless crusade against Pablo Escobar, a notorious drug baron, turned El Espectador, a Colombian newspaper, into a journalistic icon but cost it dearly. Its editor was murdered, its offices bombed and its distributors threatened. A recession then forced the battered paper into turning weekly under new owners in 2001. This month, bucking the global decline of newspapers, El Espectador relaunched as a daily. [Economist]
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