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Category Archive: Language

Something for the weekend, sir? Contraception before the ‘pill’

A glimpse into the social history of the condom.

February 21, 2015 General, Language, Life

Faint words of apology: Lenovo and Superfish

We are only human, and each of us screws up on occasion. Large multinational corporates also screw up, […]

February 20, 2015 General, Language, Life, Technology

Beyond words and pictures: 2 Metaphor

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Visual metaphor is common in advertising. Such images succeed in bringing together two apparently unrelated subjects, using the one to position the product favourably in the mind of the beholder.

February 17, 2015 Language, Painting

Happy New Year

Is next (Chinese New) year the Year of the Sheep or Goat?

February 16, 2015 General, Language, Life

There’s no place like…

English – and possibly other languages – get quite weird when it comes to place names. Each seems to become an idiom on its own.

February 16, 2015 General, Language, Life

Beyond words and pictures: 1 The quest for tropes

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Just as we are practised and skilled at reading beyond the literality of words, we need tools to see beyond pictures. This is the start of a journey to acquire those tools, and achieve visual literacy.

February 16, 2015 Language, Painting

User poll

This blog is almost a month old now, and it would help me to cater better for your […]

February 13, 2015 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

Is that so? How to check the veracity of ‘facts’

The Internet is replete with information and opinions, many of them plain wrong. This is most true of […]

February 7, 2015 General, Language, Life, Technology

Art for all – how copyright law should change

If you research art history, you know how hard it can be to track down an image of […]

February 5, 2015 General, Language, Painting

The laws of motion

The CEO of a corporation supplying software to the legal market considers the concept of momentum to be […]

February 4, 2015 General, Language, Life

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