What sports announcers do to our language.
Calling the plays, murdering the language. Most of us have heard and likely used such expressions “legalese” and/or “corporate-speak” to describe (maybe excuse) the mangled language that comes out of...
View Article“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.”
Clarity and success. That quote up there was something taught by Ludwig Wittgenstein (April 26, 1889–April 29, 1951) an Austrian-born philosopher who spent most of his life in England, including...
View ArticleHappy New Sidereal Year
What New Year’s really means. While most people know that the Western (Gregorian) calendar is “solar” (and measures the earth’s full rotation around the sun – an orbit which takes about one year) few...
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