Showing posts with label language. Show all posts
Showing posts with label language. Show all posts

6.14.2023

literal litter

Litter is a kind of symbolic language, telling one about the life and times of a society. I’ve noticed the new litter features many discarded face masks.

8.24.2020

many heroes hereabouts

Here a hero, there a hero, a hero everywhere.

5.19.2010

known by your army

It’s been said that a language is a dialect with an army. If so, then perhaps a religion is a cult with an army.

4.04.2010

first failed translation

The translation problem between languages pales before the struggle to translate the material world into any language.