Since there is so much English in Berlin, does it count as a local language?

Social media round-up for September 2, 2016

The Oxford English Dictionary halted a crowd-search for most the disliked English word after ‘severe misuse’. Yikes! Story from Alison Flood.
The Multicultural Kids Blog had some pointers about preparing your child to learn a new language at school that sound very common-sense to us.
Recently when we were in Berlin, we heard so much English, just like the author of the Language on the Move story we read this week. They asked, since there is so much English in Berlin, does it count as a local language?
The CEO of Heinz weighed in this week on using localization to power growth in emerging markets, on the Harvard Business Blog.
We read about translation challenges in the making of ‘The Little Prince’ from Ben Zimmer on the Wall Street Journal.
On WNYC, we listened to a radio story about language, this time it was about using inclusive language in poetry, and how the words we choose can make people feel included or excluded.
Verbose tweet inspires linguistic laughter from Indians, in a story we read on the BBC.
Everyone’s favorite (or at least ours!) Dinosaur Comics has opinions on the BEST PUNCTUATION.
We took the wayback machine to read about Scalia’s use of the word “choate” in “What’s in a word?” a piece from the New York Times in 2013.
So cool! Two years of 51 poets translating each other’s work culminates in an international poetry fest, from the Hindu Times. Super inspiring project!
Finally, in news you don’t need to be told, the word ‘OK’ has taken over the world. How did it happen? The BBC had a fun and interesting story on it, ok?