The high priests of education promote formalism because it seems more impressive and more authoritative. Students, however, live in their own world of distinctively informal language, and teenagers ...

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. When we talked about “bizarro” words last week, we promised to talk this week about the difference between ...

CHENNAI: Do you want to sound natural when you are engaged in an informal conversation or chat? If you use formal language while chatting, you sound unnatural as formal language and expressions are ...

Speaker 1: We need to change how we speak depending on the situation and who we're speaking to. When we don't know people very well we need to use more formal language. Speaker 2: (TO OTHER PEOPLE) ...

Biologists in particular are writing their papers in a less formal style. We are not supposed to use first-person pronouns, and contractions aren’t allowed. These rules also discourage unattended ...

Scout and Jem both use informal language. For example, Jem says to Dill after first meeting him, Shoot no wonder, then... Scout yonder’s been readin’ ever since she was born, and she ain’t even ...

Whether you’re communicating professionally or personally, understanding the difference between formal and informal letters is essential for effective writing. Letters are often a crucial part of ...

Far too many students find schoolwork to be boring. There are multiple reasons, but a main one is that academic instruction is typically framed in plain-vanilla, academic language and style. In the ...