Category Archives: Language

Arboretum

Posted on November 14, 2011 by Karie

Visual poetry: a poetry form in which the shape of the poem is as important as the words themselves. The Scottish poet and gardener Ian Hamilton Smith combined gardening, sculptures and poetry to great effect. The woods around Bennachie yield … Continue reading →

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Wordy

Posted on November 10, 2010 by Karie

A linguist friend once told me about a second language acquisition theory: different people store languages in different ways. Some brains work like a giant filing cabinet: words, phrases, idioms and syntax are all neatly filed away so the brain … Continue reading →

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Something for the Weekend

Posted on August 27, 2010 by Karie

My new autumnal knitting project. I started working on it last night whilst watching Digging for Britain, a programme about British archaeology. When I was a teen I wanted to be an archaeologist specialising in Neolithic sites (you get a … Continue reading →

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Dictionary Definition

Posted on March 24, 2010 by Karie

uncool   /ˌʌnˈkuːl/ when you take a photo from a Ravelry user’s notebook and upload it to your blog without seeking permission. See also: cool (Antonym) Usage example: “Seeing my disembodied self on a foreign-language blog was really uncool,” said the knitter … Continue reading →

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Careful with Words

Posted on March 16, 2010 by Karie

I’m not a huge gadget fan, but I love my green iPod, Darth Kermit. It’s an old model, but it does the job every morning as I’m going to and fro work. However, I am yet to figure a way … Continue reading →

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On Languages and Blogging

Posted on October 30, 2009 by Karie

“It is a sign of a deeply disturbed civilization where Tree huggers and Whale huggers in their weirdness are acceptable… while no one embraces the last speakers of a language.” -Werner Herzog Found here which looks at whether we should … Continue reading →

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Whit?

Posted on October 14, 2009 by Karie

I had to laugh when I saw this little news story: Company seeks Glaswegian interpreter. Today Translations spokesman, Mick Thorburn said: “Over the last few months we’ve had clients asking us for Glaswegian translators. (..) “Usually, the role would involve … Continue reading →

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Saturday Link Dump

Posted on August 22, 2009 by Karie

I haven’t done one of these in ages. Also: insomnia has struck. This is my new favourite cartoon. Strong words lurk within, beware. Robert Barclay Allardice – The Celebrated Pedestrian: “His most famous feat was the walking of 1,000 miles (1,600 km) … Continue reading →

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“Because I know I shall not know”

Posted on June 6, 2009 by Karie

I have read poetry most of my life, it seems. I was a quiet Danish teenage girl who read Lord Byron and Rupert Brooke in the school library, swooning over the bold romanticism of the poets’ words and lives. When … Continue reading →

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Yes, Words Matter

Posted on May 27, 2009 by Karie

BBC has a Poetry Season which means I am watching far more TV than I usually do. So far Gryff Rhys Jones has explored why poetry matters, the Orkney poet George Mackay Brown has had his own programme, and last … Continue reading →

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