This Norwegian ad about accommodating and accepting the presence of guide dogs makes the point that it wouldn’t work so well if other animals were used in their place. It also serves as an illustration that while something may seem an inconvenience, other alternatives would be much, much worse. ht
For all you language-o-philes out there (especially scrabble players and the like) here are three updates from the Oxford English Dictionary listing words they added to the dictionary during the last year. (Guess which words my proofreader didn’t recognise when finalising this post.) 12 September 2013 Examples: campsite, n. weself, pron. 13 June 2013 Examples: …
The latest trailer for muppet movie sequel Muppets Most Wanted features fan commentary purportedly harvested from social media. It sounds accurate enough. Even though it’s got Ricky Gervais in it, this looks like it could be funny. Here’s a trailer from last November, so you can see for yourself.
I enjoyed the remade movie True Grit a few years ago. Absent from that movie were direct references to the Presbyterianism of lead character Mattie Ross. John Clayton provides five examples from the novel on which the movie is based. Having never read the book I found these interesting, and deepened my understanding of the …
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