Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Why Is English Spelling So Weird?

Why Is English Spelling So Weird? a cute film with live human doing speeded up drawing about the history of English and its many contradictory origins.  "English spelling might seem crazy and unfair, but there are reasons for how it got to be that way. Here is the brief history, in words and pictures, of our weird spelling system and the people who made it." From Akira Okrent. Linguist, author of In the Land of Invented Languages, Chicago. 

Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Words can make you sick. Or healed. Heavy or light.

Words can make you sick. Or healed. Heavy or light.  Here’s an experiment that might prove it.
"Words create worlds because the universe is always listening. "

A nation’s identity lives in its language


“A nation’s identity lives in its language ..  a lot.” Tim Minchin on the documentary about Australian humour and comedy “Stop laughing … this is serious” 8 April 2015.