Notice: Trying to get property 'term_id' of non-object in /home/itkguh480ppw/public_html/wp-content/themes/mesocolumn/lib/templates/headline.php on line 4
Notice: Trying to get property 'name' of non-object in /home/itkguh480ppw/public_html/wp-content/themes/mesocolumn/lib/templates/headline.php on line 5
Search result for " language " - Page 8
Book Review – A Slap In The Face…
Finally my review is here for A Slap in the face by William B. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and the strange thing is it didn’t teach me anything new about insults. Being English I have sarcasm down pat and insulting each other at dinner parties and thinking we are…
Book Review is here – Wool by Hugh Howey
It is the future, a few hundred years from now. There is no ‘outside’ and the world as people know it is just one vast silo. An underground settlement where everyone has a job, a function, a role, a tiny apartment to live in and a place in the system. …
Which book to read next?…..
I have just finished reading Freakanomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J Dubner. I wasn’t sure what to expect but had heard a lot about the book and now I’m hooked on Freakanomics! Such an interesting way to look at data and the real reasons behind certain economic changes.…
Happy Happy Inkjoy!
Springtime always has me doing a big clear out of my apartment and more importantly my desk. Broken pens, elastic bands which have lost their stretch, dried up markers and loose staples which stab like hell when they go under your nails! A bug bear of mine is investing in…
Don’t judge an idiot too quickly……
My beloved Sydney City frustrated me today. I never tire of the daily trip across the matt black harbour bridge, how the chinks of sunlight often burst through the train windows and bounce off the harbour waters. Or the muffled foghorns sounding on cruise ships and ferries. All communicating with…
Tolkien to the Nazis…..
After reading and becoming slightly obsessed with the anniversary of Scott of the Antarctic and his last letter to his wife, I took some time out to wander the internet in search of other significant letters in history. In doing so I stumbled across this great find for anyone with an…
100 Years since Scott of the Antarctic……..
100 years ago on the 29th March 1912, Captain Scott wrote a last letter to his wife. The language of the time when read now may seem a little distant and formal, but you can't help but feel the anguish he was going through and can only imagine the pain and distress.…
Ahh the 70’s, bring back Grammar Rock!
A trip down memory lane for anyone over 30. What any kid should be watching today to learn about language, much better than the money machine that is The Wiggles. Good honest education with a funky beat. Enjoy flares and the song, it will infiltrate your brain all day! VERB!
Look how far we’ve come….
It’s been all over social media recently about Ricky Gervais using the word mong in his tweets. It actually really infuriates me. It’s a word; and yes, it has been used as a negative term, but i'm pretty sure it wasn't his intent in this instance, although not his wisest move. It was a stupid…