Showing posts with label language. Show all posts
Showing posts with label language. Show all posts
Thursday, December 05, 2019

ON THE AVENUES: Ladislav's language, 1989 - 1990 (Part 2).

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Ostrava, 1989. Having resolved to resume contact with my Czech acquaintance Ladislav in the post-Velvet Revolution, pre-Internet wint...
Thursday, November 28, 2019

ON THE AVENUES: Ladislav's language, 1989 - 1990 (Part 1).

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Ostrava, 1989. Ladislav was a trim, polite, vaguely aristocratic older gentleman who lived in a peculiarly oversized flat amid a mode...
Friday, November 15, 2019

"How can someone who doesn’t speak the language possibly have an regional accent? Yet Italian-Americans do."

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS/LC-USZC4-1584 I've seen this photograph many times before, and it always affects me: Little Italy, New York City...
Friday, February 15, 2019

Language in the Balkans is Balkanized just like the Balkans.

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Tito, Sarajevo -- 1987. “This soup is as cold as the sea!" But he was not shouting at the soup. He was shouting at the Turks, at ...
Wednesday, October 24, 2018

SHANE'S EXCELLENT NEW WORDS: "What does the word ‘whore’ actually mean?"

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"Language is an important battle ground in the fight for social equality. As the linguist Ferdinand de Saussure argued, ‘language const...
Monday, July 09, 2018

BEER WITH A SOCIALIST: On beer lists, beer-speak, and beer geeksplaining.

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Two decades later, Pints ... and Union. Once upon a time I was highly visible in beer circles. Then the beer circles moved on, and so d...
Friday, March 10, 2017

Golden oldie, no less vital: "Attacking the Language Bias in Transportation Engineering."

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Cartoon by Ian Lockwood.  My advice stays the same. Print this 2013 article on card stock. Roll it up and add a rubber band. The next...
Wednesday, January 25, 2017

SHANE'S EXCELLENT NEW WORDS: Crimes against language, annoying words and how not to be #blessed.

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Welcome to another mind-expanding installment of  SHANE'S EXCELLENT NEW WORDS , a regular Wednesday feature at NA Confidential . Aro...
Sunday, September 11, 2016

On language, it's Wolfe versus Chomsky and Darwin. Pass the popcorn, and perhaps a martini.

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Evolution, or Elton John? Has Donald Trump taken a position? What about Jeff Gahan? Bonfire of the theories: Wolfe battles Chomsky o...
Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Hello. They're crashes. Don’t call them accidents anymore. Thank you.

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Janette Sadik-Khan , author of Street Fight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution , tweeted a link to this article. It's no "accid...
Saturday, January 23, 2016

How to say "My hovercraft is full of eels" in many languages.

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This may be the most important link you've ever seen at NA Confidential , so use it sparingly. My hovercraft is full of eels in man...
Wednesday, September 09, 2015

They're not car "accidents. They're car "crashes."

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The gist is changing the way we use language, so as to change the way we view reality. Families for Safe Streets has launched a campaign ...
Friday, February 27, 2015

Reframing language so that we can talk about safe streets.

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I'm just trying to imagine a world in which Chris Morris comprehends any of this. Hunter S. Thompson on sportswriting: "It ke...
Thursday, October 02, 2014

Two must reads: The myth of religious violence, and why there’s no such thing as Islamic State.

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It's impossible to reduce this "long read" of Karen Armstrong's into a single convenient pull, but I'll take a stab at...
Monday, April 21, 2014

Seattle: A street doubling as a park. Can it be done here? Let's ask John.

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NA Confidential asked John "The Rasputin of Redevelopment" Rosenbarger: "Here in New Albany, where you've ceaselessl...
Saturday, August 31, 2013

Seamus Heaney and the story of language as a loaded weapon.

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Seamus Heaney has died , and Fintan O'Toole places the poet in context. ... (Heaney) had something to convey – especially, it se...
Thursday, November 03, 2011

ON THE AVENUES: Ladislav's language (2).

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ON THE AVENUES: Ladislav's language (2). A weekly web column by Roger A. Baylor. Having resolved to resume contact with my Czech acquain...
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Thursday, October 27, 2011

ON THE AVENUES: Ladislav's language (1).

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ON THE AVENUES: Ladislav's language (1). A weekly web column by Roger A. Baylor. Ladislav was a trim, polite, vaguely aristocratic older...
Thursday, February 01, 2007

The principal should spank her for failing principles of the English language.

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Anywhere except New Albany, you’d be forgiven for thinking that a “college professor” should know the difference in usage between an adjecti...

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Anywhere except New Albany, you’d be forgiven for thinking that a “college professor” should know the difference in usage between an adjecti...
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