Thought Provoking Entropy | 20 Oct 2009
Words are the corner stones of language. The more words we have, the richer the vocabulary. words allow us to communicate precisely. Without the right word to describe something …. we’d be speechless Each year hundreds of words are dropped from the English language Old words, wise words, hard working words. Words that once led [...]
Thought Provoking Entropy | 23 Jan 2009
In connection with Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. re-administered the oath to Mr. Obama on Wednesday evening, one day after the two men stumbled over each other’s words during the inauguration ceremony at the Capitol. This is a fascinating article by Steven Pinker a Harvard Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. He also conducts [...]
Waves of circumflexes storms of adverbs, windmills of verbs, shells of signs of ellipsis, on the island of poems of soul, of mind, of thought one-word garments you wear to endure! © By Dimitris P. Kraniotis
Poetry &Thought Provoking Entropy | 30 Apr 2008
Words Words are like days: coloring books or pickpockets, signposts or scratching posts, fakirs over hot coals. Certain words must be earned just as emotions are suffered before they can be uttered – clean as a kept promise. Words as witnesses testifying their truths squalid or rarefied inevitable, irrefutable. But, words must not carry more [...]
Thought Provoking Entropy | 05 Sep 2007
Over the centuries the English language has assimilated phrases and words from other languages. Here are some examples. A cappella, Italian, sung without instrumental accompaniment (literally “in chapel style”) Ad hoc, Latin, made or done for a particular purpose (lit. “to this”) Agent provocateur, French, a person who tempts a suspected criminal to commit a [...]
Thought Provoking Entropy | 05 Oct 2006
It’s time English teachers got back to basics – less grammar, more play The report published by the University of York on its research into the teaching of grammar will hardly surprise anyone who has thought about the subject. The question being examined was whether instruction in grammar had any effect on pupils’ writing. It [...]