Uncontrolled Vocabularies

Uncontrolled Vocabularies

and related language links on the side-bar have a lot to say on the idiosyncracies of languages. Map the author is Russian born and reveals an amazing depth of understanding of the spoken and written English language. On things that English speakers take for granted because it is so, Map asks why should it be so. Then goes on to explain why it is so and is usually right.One has to be extra grammatically correct posting, especially around Map.

Remembering this, in a post on a Java forum, I hastily changed a sentence from
"Pheasants have their necks wrung" which suggests an unconvincing degree of pheasant compliance to the ordeal, to "Pheasants' necks are wrung".

Living In Egypt

This blog is an amazing read. Handpicked by Google as a Blogger of Note and
you only have to read a few posts to see why.Living In Egypt

lexis, idiolect and orthography

Or words, speech and spelling. Imagine being taught lexis, idiolect and orthography and the teacher never lets on that what they really mean are words, speech and spelling. The words convey much more meaning than simple words, speech and spelling.