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Category Archive: Language

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

A peevishness beyond

We all have our peeves about language. But Andrew McMillen’s fascinating article about those who contribute to Wikipedia […]

February 4, 2015 Language, Life, Technology

So how do we learn that?

Being a linguist must be very frustrating. When others think of the most intellectually-demanding subjects which have been […]

February 1, 2015 Language

Rules for a prescriptive grammar

There is no shortage of grammars, particularly of English, which will tell you how you must write a […]

February 1, 2015 General, Language

Auntie’s diaper bomb

To the devout speaker of British English, the word diaper might seem anathema. To see the BBC, still […]

January 30, 2015 Language

Movies about language and linguistics

There are relatively few movies – either full programmes or YouTube videos – about languages or linguistics. Two […]

January 29, 2015 Language

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