SYNTAX - ONLINE RESOURCES Amusing, but kind of weird quotes... A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother. What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary. -- Richard Harkness, The New York Times, 1960 Slogan of 105.9, the classic rock radio station in Chicago: "Of all the radio stations in Chicago ... we're one of them." With every passing hour our solar system comes forty-three thousand miles closer to globular cluster 13 in the constellation Hercules, and still there are some misfits who continue to insist that there is no such thing as progress. -- Ransom K. Madness takes its toll. The graduate with a Science degree asks, "Why does it work?" Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world. -- Dave Barry I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants. -- A. 668: The Neighbor of the Beast Boundary, n.
On Language The Great Language Land Grab By BEN ZIMMER When tech companies engage in legal squabbles about who gets to use our everyday words, what are ordinary speakers of the language to make of it all? March 27, 2011, Sunday ‘Cannot Be Underestimated’ This perplexing turn of phrase is extremely common, even among careful writers and speakers. January 23, 2011, Sunday Auto(in)correct How smartphones are making us look dumb. January 16, 2011, Sunday 'Treasure Trove' Keith Otis Edwards e-mails: ''In the Dec. 12 On Language column, I see that hackneyed phrase treasure trove. January 09, 2011, Sunday On Language - Junk The endless reusability of a trashy term. January 02, 2011, Sunday On Language - ‘Acronym’ A reader asks if “acronyms” must be pronounced as words. December 19, 2010, Sunday On Language - The King’s Tongue Twisters Did vocal gymnastics help cure George VI’s stutter? December 12, 2010, Sunday On Language - Web The 20th anniversary of a research proposal that remade the language.
Interdependence, Web of Life, Complexity: Quotes, Metaphors, Poems, Sayings, Quotations Quotes Seasons Gardening Walking Blog Simplicity Complexity Ecology Flowers Trees Home Compiled by Karen and Mike Garofalo Quotations for Gardeners, Walkers, and Lovers of the Green Way Green Way Research, Red Bluff, California "When we try to pick anything out by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe." - John Muir "How can we fret and stew sub specie aeternitatis - under the calm gaze of ancient Tao? "This planet is an exquisitely arranged and interconnected system. "Omnia vivunt, omnia inter se conexa Everything is alive; everything is interconnected." - Cicero "A spiritual sensibility encourages us to see ourselves as part of the fundamental unity of all being. "One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star." - Francis Thompson "As is the inner, so is the outer; as is the great, so is the small; as it is above, so it is below; there is but One Life and Law: and he that worth it is One. Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos by M.
5 Insane Ways Words Can Control Your Mind On some level we already know that language shapes the way we think. We're automatically more afraid to fight a guy named Jack Savage than somebody named Peewee Nipplepuss, even if we've never seen either of them before. It's totally illogical, but you probably run into an example of that every day, and don't notice it. While we tend to think words are just sounds we make to express ideas, science is finding that language is more like a fun house mirror, warping what we see in mind-blowing ways. Speaking English Makes Us More Likely to Blame People Let's say your roommate Steve is jumping on your bed. How will you answer? Keep in mind, Steve pulls this shit all the time. The answer largely depends on what language you speak. Stanford scientists did experiments on this, by having speakers of various languages watch videos featuring, in various situations, people breaking eggs or popping balloons, sometimes on purpose, sometimes on accident. "Maybe it's a kid-friendly version of Jackass?"
Be Yourself Also see Success and Failure, Gratitude and Acceptance. Quotes Always remember you're unique...just like everyone else.Be careful. Quotes on Conformity Don't think you're on the right road just because it's a well-beaten path.Don't undermine your worth by comparing yourself to others. from The Man in the Tree (Damon Knight) Driving down the wrong road and knowing it, the fork years behind, how many have thought to pull up on the shoulder and leave the car empty, strike out across the fields; and how many are still mazed among dock and thistle, seeking the road they should have taken? I Was Born... (James Kavanaugh) I was born to catch dragons in their dens And pick flowers To tell tales and laugh away the morning To drift and dream like a lazy stream And walk barefoot across sunshine days. A Butterfly in the Wind A child is like a butterfly in the wind Some can fly higher than others, But each one flies the best it can. Have a Good Day Everybody Says (Dorothy Aldis) (Dilby Wolfe) You Are Special (W.
Category:English vulgarities Definition from Wiktionary, the free dictionary » English language » Lexicons » Vulgarities English terms whose tone (rather than the meaning) is offensive to polite company.[edit] Category:English swear words: English terms that are used to swear, such as to express strong anger or frustration. Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory. Pages in category "English vulgarities" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 1,150 total. (previous 200) (next 200)(previous 200) (next 200) LANGUAGE INSTINCT? PINKER Presentations: New College OxfordChrist's College Cambridge [Language Origins Society. University of Pecs, Hungary. 1995] LANGUAGE INSTINCT? Gradualistic Natural Selection is not a good enough explanation Steven Pinker's The Language Instinct was a comprehensive and ambitious attempts to account for the origin of language. Steven Pinker's The Language Instinct was published in 1994 and was received as one of the most complete and carefully argued accounts of the evolution of language. In a critique of The Language Instinct (1994), there are several complexly interlocking issues. On the first issue, the adequacy and plausibility of Chomsky's account, books have been written and controversy rages. 3. There are some problems in presenting his ideas concisely and clearly. 3.1 Chomsky's Universal Grammar Pinker's presentation is largely contained in Chapter 4 'How Language Works' and the following points are mainly taken from that. 3.2 Chomsky and the acquisition of language by children 4. 1.
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