In a world where we talk about keyboard shortcuts, we are shortcutting the English language. Verbs like “are” have become “r,” the dignified pronoun “you” has become “u,” and messaging has replaced ...

It’s not what you write, but how you put it down on paper. David Mulroy, a classics professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, met with about 30 people at Baraboo Public Library on Friday to ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Some people might view grammar as a set of confusing and complicated rules that must be followed.

Steven Donahue complains that the trashy talk in pop culture -- the pervasive slang on television and hip-hop records -- is showing up too often in the college papers he grades. Mr. Donahue, a ...