Posts Tagged ‘language’

A continuous moving on

Monday, August 10th, 2009

Have I previously discussed my enjoyment of the word flux? I don’t think I have.
In fact, I like the word enough that I’ve just officially adopted it for the next year at Adopt-A-Word.

As the word’s new guardian, I will, of course, be traveling the web to ensure the word is not misused, or under-used.
(This is [...]

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Language and the Shaping Of Thought

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

While I was doing my undergraduate studies, in addition to my Engineering degree, and my minor in Philosophy, I also pursed a number of “options”, notably including an option in Cognitive Studies. Both the mechanics of thinking and the philosophy of cognition and identity were (and remain) of great interest to me.1
One of the topics [...]

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Diverse practyk in many sundry werkes

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

My goal is to redefine the whole history of rhyme
‘Cause the only way to free the soul is to free the mind
And no wisdom as old as this should be confined
To total mystery, so we’ll just read the signs
And DaVinci codes, and try to see the science
In this linguistically-composed pristine design
–extracted from Rhyme Renaissance by [...]

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A moment of hobo appreciation

Saturday, May 3rd, 2008

I passed a lovely bit of time today reading The American Hobo by Colin Beesley, a British academic paper about a quintessentially American phenomenon1. I’ve always found the romantic aspects of the hobo story fascinating (something that Utah Phillips has only encouraged), although I suspect I’m too soft to have lived that life even had [...]

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