Category Archives: LANGUAGE

Gnomicon 277

Posted on 13 February 2013 by laohutiger

If you have not already done so, you may wish to read the Introduction to Gnomica. Gnomicon 277 Wednesday 13 February 2013 Read gnomica 1-250 here! 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 … Continue reading →

Posted in GNOMICA, LANGUAGE | Tagged ’fascination with words’, ’lexical garden’, logophile, vocabulary, words | Leave a comment

Gnomicon 207

Posted on 5 December 2012 by laohutiger

If you have not already done so, you may wish to read the Introduction to Gnomica. Gnomicon 207 Wednesday 5 December 2012 Read gnomica 1-200 here! 201 202 203 204 205 206 “Mostly I just kill time,” he said, “and … Continue reading →

Posted in GNOMICA, LANGUAGE | Tagged ‘transitive verb’, ’influence of Greek and Latin on writing in English’, ’intransitive verbs’, ’Raymond Chandler’, ’semantics of verb voice’, ’transitive versus intransitive’, http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/998106-the-long-good-bye | Leave a comment

Ancient & Modern: The Modern Language of Love

Posted on 28 November 2012 by laohutiger

κα]ὶ γ[ὰρ αἰ φεύγει, ταχέως διώξει, <αἰ δὲ δῶρα μὴ δέκετ’, ἀλλὰ δώσει,> <αἰ δὲ μὴ φίλει, ταχέως φιλήσει> <κωὐκ ἐθέλοισα. In fact, if she flees you now, soon she’ll pursue, and if she refuses gifts now, later she’ll give … Continue reading →

Posted in ANCIENT & MODERN, LANGUAGE | Tagged ’language of love’, ’military language eroticized’, ’the one I love’, Mimnermus, Sappho | Leave a comment

Two ‘shoulds’

Posted on 28 November 2012 by laohutiger

Here is a brief language riff on the duality of ‘should’. Read the following sentence in which the word ‘should’ appears twice: You should wash your hands before eating, for that should clean them. I think a native speaker senses … Continue reading →

Posted in LANGUAGE | Tagged 'should and should', should | 2 Comments

Gnomicon 185

Posted on 13 November 2012 by laohutiger

If you have not already done so, you may wish to read the Introduction to Gnomica. Gnomicon 185 Tuesday 13 November 2012 Read gnomica 1-150 here! 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 … Continue reading →

Posted in GNOMICA, LANGUAGE | Tagged ‘language reflecting structure of reality’, ’bicameral mind’, binaries, pairings | Leave a comment

Gnomicon 174

Posted on 2 November 2012 by laohutiger

If you have not already done so, you may wish to read the Introduction to Gnomica. Gnomicon 174 Friday 2 November 2012 Read gnomica 1-150 here! 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 … Continue reading →

Posted in GNOMICA, LANGUAGE | Tagged amphiboly, ‘Diane Arbus’, ‘the generalizing ‘they’’, ’legal implications of ‘as’’, photography | Leave a comment

Gender … again!

Posted on 4 September 2012 by laohutiger

I really should just give up, accept defeat, appreciate that the fall of some niceties of the English language into permanent desuetude are destined to continue – and to irritate me immensely. For certain, it seems, my jeremiads in the … Continue reading →

Posted in LANGUAGE, OBITER DICTA | Tagged ‘gender in English’, ’emeritus or emerita?’, language | Leave a comment

Revenge Should Have No Bounds – Chapter 19 (111-123)

Posted on 22 June 2012 by laohutiger

[If you have not already done so, you must read the Introduction before proceeding.] Prologue 001-002 Chap 1 003-005 Chap 2 006 Chap 3 007-008 Chap 4 009-010 Chap 5 011-013 Chap 6 014-017 Chap 7 018-019 Chap 8 020-023 … Continue reading →

Posted in LANGUAGE, STORY, Uncategorized | Tagged ‘Revenge Should Have No Doubts’, ’power dressing’, ‘media frenzy’, ’internationalization of American crime’, ’ambitious prosecutor’, ’Kerzy’s last chance’, ’trial of the century’, ’prosecutorial vanity’, self-delusions, ’’impromptu’ press conference’, ’Kerzy the people’s tribune’, ’subliminal packaging for jury’, ’opening statements’, ’each side’s narrative of the crime’, ’trial as display’, ’defense’s opening statement’, ’defense lawyer’s beauty’, ’first prosecution witness, ’defendant placed with the deceased’, ’Agung back in the picture’, ’powers-that-be nowhere in sight’, ’expert testimony’, ’crime tech’, ’autopsy findings’, ’time line for the murder’, ’medical autopsy witness’, ’hair and fibers expert testifies’, ’lab tech on the stand’, ’payments to lab tech’, ’catastrophic arrogance of the prosecutor’, ’unfairness to the defendant’, ’defense snookered’, ’lab tech made to look incompetent’, ’anagen phase of hair’, ’telogen phase of hair’, ’confusions about the evidence’, ’telogen and anagen phase of hair growth’, anagen, telogen, ’error rates’, ’inferential proofs suspect’, ’lying on the witness stand’, ’trial as a kind of hustle’, ’extreme relativity of truth’, ’what is ‘truth’’, ’Yukiko’s testimony’, ’Mazarine alone with her thoughts’, ’her fondness for Grand Marnier’, ’who is framing her?’, ’perfidy of Yukiko’ | Leave a comment

Gnomicon 64

Posted on 20 June 2012 by laohutiger

From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put. Sir Winston Churchill (30 Nov 1874 – 24 Jan 1965) How many times were you warned in middle school English classes about … Continue reading →

Posted in LANGUAGE, OBITER DICTA | Tagged ‘what is a preposition?’, ’co-verbs’ | 1 Comment

Revenge Should Have No Bounds 119

Posted on 17 June 2012 by laohutiger

[If you have not already done so, you must read the Introduction before proceeding.] For §§ 1-110 (Chapters 1-18), see here. 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 Revenge Should Have No Bounds 119 Chapter 19 (9 of 13): … Continue reading →

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Category Archives: LANGUAGE

Gnomicon 277

Gnomicon 207

Ancient & Modern: The Modern Language of Love

Two ‘shoulds’

Gnomicon 185

Gnomicon 174

Gender … again!

Revenge Should Have No Bounds – Chapter 19 (111-123)

Gnomicon 64

Revenge Should Have No Bounds 119

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