A Walk in the WoRds

"They've a temper, some of them - particularly verbs, they're the proudest - adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs...

A wonderful quotation by an unknown author: "A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one Year and out the other." /h...

"Change your language and you change your thoughts" -Karl Albrecht

"The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouth they've been in." -Dennis Potter British Dramatist

"Change your language and change your thoughts.” -Karl Albrecht Wisdom from the founder of the Albrecht-Discount supermarket chain.

Something to think about on the first Monday of this new year- If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviousl...

"Language is wine upon the lips." -Virginia Woolf

Linguistics will have to recognize laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena f...

The marvelous thing is that even in studying linguistics, we find that the universe as a whole is patterned, ordered, and to some degree int...

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. -Truman Capote