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Category Archive: Language

Word by word: our love of noun-preposition-noun constructions

Little by little, English has accumulated some odd phrases. This group consists of a noun followed by a […]

March 13, 2015 Language

Book review: Written in Stone, by Christopher Stevens

If you want a breathless scramble through some speculative etymology of hundreds of English words, best dipped into in small doses, then this book might appeal to you.

March 12, 2015 General, Language, Life

Book review: Accidence will Happen: The Non-Pedantic Guide to English Usage, by Oliver Kamm

This little book puts the case against prescriptivist ‘grammars’, then offers some useful tips about a range of issues in ‘Standard English’.

March 11, 2015 General, Language, Life

Failure in language evolution?

Why have languages not (yet) evolved to be more robust? The effects of small errors with large consequences […]

March 4, 2015 General, Language, Life, Technology

What does they mean?

An illustration of how we sometimes need more than just syntax and semantics to parse a simple sentence.

March 3, 2015 General, Language

Just in case

Here is a quick summary of the more commonly-encountered cases of nouns and pronouns, for readers of Gaston […]

February 28, 2015 Language

Book Review: Lingo. A Language Spotter’s Guide to Europe, by Gaston Dorren

An insightful and entertaining account of the many languages of Europe. Strongly recommended.

February 27, 2015 General, Language, Life

Enough enough

Enough is a common enough word in the English language that we never stop to think how strange it is.

February 24, 2015 Language

Beyond words and pictures 4: modern painting, and conclusions

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Is modernism different with respect to its use of visual tropes such as metonymy? The answer leads us to conclusions about the reliance of language and painting on metaphor and metonymy.

February 23, 2015 Language, Painting

Beyond words and pictures 3: metonymy and synecdoche

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Examines the use of metonymy, synecdoche, and symbols in representative painting prior to ‘Modern Art’ in the twentieth century.

February 22, 2015 Language, Painting

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