Read (and got sort of involved in) a comment stream on another blog last week that developed because of the difference between an author’s use of tone and what happens when readers don’t interpret a text using the intended tone. I bailed out when the discussion came to be more about the tone issue than …
Too helpful not to post. I know some young men who’ll find this quite helpful. [via]
The follow-up to an earlier post with fifteen wonderful words with no English, the plainly titled fourteen more words with no English equivalent has been posted at Mental Floss. Personal favourites from this list include: Shemomedjamo (Georgian) You know when you’re really full, but your meal is just so delicious, you can’t stop eating it? …
From the Writing English blog here are twenty-five analogies that make up for their failure in form by being funny. Some examples: He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in …
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