The South Australian Government has gone ahead with legislation to ban David Hicks from selling his story. He’s still allowed to tell his story, but he’s not allowed to sell it. Lucky him. Presumably he’ll be able to find a job with no problems - after all, he was never convicted of anything by a […]
Archive for the 'language' Category
For a glorious, and no doubt brief, moment today, the International Herald Tribune displayed this uncannily accurate headline on one of it’s lead stories:
The article is/was on-line here. Don’t you hate it when the media puts a spin on everything instead of just reporting the facts?
desiccated coconut redux
08May07Following on from our former PM’s recent comments in the media (Costello is “all tip and no iceberg” and the PM is a “desiccated coconut“), a friend points to this great site, which contains an archive of some of the best of Paul Keating’s insults to the Liberals, his colleagues in the Labor Party, the […]
Another snippet from the US election, where they make Australia’s current efforts in political mudslinging look altogether quaint and provincial. There’s currently a controversy over remarks made by the loathsome right wing ‘commentator’ Ann Coulter about John Edwards, John Kerry’s running mate in 2004 and current candidate in the Democrat presidential primaries. Coulter […]
We are like sailors who on the open sea must reconstruct their ship but are never able to start afresh from the bottom. Where a beam is taken away a new one must at once be put there, and for this the rest of the ship is used as support. In this way, by using […]
Born Again German
01Mar07I’ve always been fascinated with the relationship between language, thought, and identity. I remember someone once told me that words are the building blocks of thought, and it stopped me in my tracks. I’d never questioned what my thoughts were made of before, and it led me to the bizarre question – how would we think without words? Try it for a second. Kinda difficult to get anything except basic imaginings & rememberances, huh. Well then – what happens when you are forced to learn, and think in, a new language?
This person is a representative of an Australian university:
If you don’t get your grammar quite right but if you know your subject and if you can solve a problem in IT or if you can provide a profit and loss report for a business person, what does it matter that you managed in the wrong […]
