language

Don’t Behave with Cold Manners

October 15, 2011

I like Chinese fortune cookie fortunes. I’ve posted those I get a few times here. This is unique among them. What fortune writer wrote this? It’s fabulous. Not the meaning, but the language. I love the phrase ‘cold manners’. So descriptive and yet so simple. Who could fail to understand that meaning? (Yes, no doubt [...]

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Esperanto

September 17, 2011

Communication is vital, bottomless in importance to the world and possibly beyond. Communication is also ever changing, one of the least stagnant things we have. New words are created, used and some are adopted into everyday language, even accepted into our dictionaries. The world is full of different languages, different cultures and endless groups of [...]

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This Bitter Language

May 13, 2011

This Bitter Language I know your streets, sweet city, I know the demons and angels that flock and roost in your boughs like birds. I know you, river, as if you flowed through my heart. I am your warrior daughter. There are letters made of your body as a fountain is made of water. There [...]

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Blogs About Grammar, Writing and Language

March 25, 2011

Blogs.com has a lot of top 10 lists of blogs by topic. You can spend some time browsing for your favourite niche topics and will almost always find something. Some of the lists are getting link rot. I found a list: 10 Great Blogs About Grammar, Writing and Language the first blogs listed were all [...]

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Fiction Language Becomes Fact

March 12, 2011

It’s interesting how science fiction writers are building our future language. I don’t know who started calling the outer security layer of space ships a shield. But that term will stick. When we do have space ships, they will have shields. Later in time, when terms are forgotten for common things we take for granted [...]

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Wordsplosion

February 17, 2011

Wordsplosion – brings you the best of the worst of the world of grammatical errors, punctuation gaffes, misspellings, typography etc. We call this family of textual catastrophes “wordsplosions.” This kind of thing is interesting when it doesn’t feel they are just picking on others to make themselves feel holier than thou. When it’s just fun [...]

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Prelapsarian Paradise

January 25, 2011

I’m reading a book by Zoe Archer which uses the phrase “prelapsarian paradise”. I’d never heard of the word prelapsarian. So, I got out of bed (I love to read in bed long after I should be sleeping) and looked it up online. I did consider just staying in bed and looking it up in [...]

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