While there is still time

"The impulse to be lyrical is driven by the need to be no longer constrained by oneself. As poems have testified for centuries, we bec...

Unique, I think, is the Scottish tartle , that hesitation when introducing someone whose name you’ve forgotten. And what could capture caf...

From 'Strange Behavior, Tales of Evolutionary Neurology', Harold Klawans, M.D: "...While improved hunting implements could ass...

"In his exquisite taxonomy of the nine kinds of silence, Paul Goodman included “the silence of listening to another speak, catching th...

"For me, language is a freedom. As soon as you have found the words with which to express something, you are no longer incoherent, you...

"I didn't tell anyone about my experience because I couldn't make my mouth form the words. And I mean that literally; it is li...

"Wittgenstein said, ‘All I know is what I have words for.’ And I think that if you don’t have the words for it, you can’t explain to s...

"A Supreme Court of Canada decision has granted the Tsilhqot'in First Nation of British Columbia Aboriginal title over a wide area...

"I had no one to help me, but the T. S. Eliot helped me. So when people say that poetry is a luxury, or an option, or for the educated...

From 'A Tale for the Time Being' by Ruth Ozeki: "Home-leaving is a Buddhist euphemism for leaving the secular world and enteri...

From 'A Tale for the Time Being' by Ruth Ozeki - another serendipitous find at my favourite second-hand book store, 'The Book W...

Komorebi Komorebi (木漏れ日) literally means ‘light that filters through the trees’ and it’s made up of 3 kanji and the h...

I happened to meet this guy who does research on linguistics and Applied Artificial Intelligence. He posts interesting questions on the evo...

"I wake and sleep language. It has always been so. I had been brought up to memorise very long Bible passages, and...

“Biologist Constantin Slobodchikoff, in his twenty years of researching communication patterns among prairie dogs, has proven that they hav...

From 'Don't Sleep, There are Snakes, Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle', by Daniel L.Everett. A fascinating account of ...

“Spoken language is a special type of music,” said Anthony Brandt, co-author of a theory paper published online this month in the journal F...

"Classical Arabic is the version of Arabic which was used by the Koreshite tribe, hereditary guardians of the Temple of Mecca, and to ...

“I watched the gorilla's eyes again, wise and knowing eyes, and wondered about this business of trying to teach apes language. Our lang...

"Good grammar is credibility, especially on the internet. In blog posts, on Facebook statuses, in e-mails, and on company websites, yo...