Holes in the Tower of Babel

Holes in the Tower of Babel The Tower of Babel story (Genesis 11:1–9) is among the most famous in the Bible. It might even be considered an iconic text—famous beyond its actual content; since the story was originally written it has come to mean much more than its actual words. Although many Westerners have a vague idea of what the story is about, or at least know the name "Babel," it is best to (re)read the text in full. Here it is in the New Revised Standard Version: 1Now the whole ear...

I AM Statements - Jesus in the Book of Mormon

The Book of Mormon contains a unique literary witness of the Savior. While the Gospel of John is known for "I AM" statements of Jesus (like "I am the Bread of Life" or "I am the Door"), the Book of Mormon also has similar divine declarations. In some cases, they line up neatly with the Old Testament and New Testament. In others, they represent unique titles for Jesus Christ found only in Restoration scripture. In this interview, Joshua Matson expounds on the first-ever published study of I AM...

Words of a feather

My query: In languages other than English, is there any euphemistic meaningful of the words for birds, and in particular the rooster?Copilot response: Certainly! The use of euphemistic and taboo terms varies across languages, and some non-English languages indeed have parallels to the English situation. Let's explore this further: 1. **German**: - In German, the word for **rooster** is **"Hahn"**. While it doesn't directly carry a secondary taboo meaning like "cock" in English, it's wor...

Language of Mythology - Medieval Grammar and Hermeneutics

The spatial sign in the middle ages is the product of the mythology of static, determinate structure.By Dr. Jesse M. GellrichProfessor of EnglishLouisiana State UniversityThe Divine Page, in its literal sense, contains many things which seem both to be opposed to each other and, sometimes, to impart something which smacks of the absurd or the impossible. But the spiritual meaning admits no opposition; in it, many things can be different from one another, but none can be opposed.Hugh of St. Vi...

literary language

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 literary language (idea) See all of literary language, there is 1 more in this node. (idea) by darl Thu Aug 10 2006 at 17:29:19 What is literary language? Introduction Many critics and poets have tried to nail this down. It's a slippery eel, it really is. It's been defined as "the familiar made strange" (Attridge), which is a nice way to put it. I got out a dictionary, the OED 2nd Ed. and looked up 'literary' to be pointed t...

Vivisystem

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Vivisystem (idea) See all of Vivisystem, no other writeups in this node. (idea) by PureDoxyk Thu Dec 21 2000 at 18:05:26 A phrase coined, as far as I can tell, by Kevin Kelly in his book "Out of Control", copyright 1994. He uses "vivisystem" to describe the melding of mechanical and natual systems; things that are man-made, but instilled with Life's Laws. He believes this to be the eventual direction humanity is heading for: One...

Linguistic Idealism as a Weapon of Poststructuralist and Postmodernist Politics

This is the follow up to my essay ‘Poststructuralism and Deconstruction as Forms of (Linguistic) Idealism’. My last essay was about Catherine Belsey’s poststructuralism, and how it’s strongly reliant (if implicitly) on linguistic idealism. (Belsey was a literary critic and academic.) This essay, on the other hand, attempts to show how Belsey and other poststructuralists/postmodernists use the philosophical position of linguistic idealism (if without using that term) as a means to further vari...

What 'alien' languages can teach us about real ones - Phys.org

Credit: Cognition (2017). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2017.10.014You can learn a lot about an animal by how it communicates. Birds tweet melodies to attract mates and defend their territory. Dogs befriend each other with wagging tails and smelly pheromones. Even plants communicate by diffusing chemicals through the soil, networking with the root systems of the flora around them.For Gareth Roberts, studying linguistics is a way to learn more about humans. "I've alwa...

Jubilee in the Book of Revelation

One of the challenges in reading the Book of Revelation is that it is very theologically dense in the way it presents its ideas. There are several reasons for this:Its dense metaphorical language (commonly called its ‘symbolism’) carries theological weight. For example, the compressed phrase ‘a lamb, looking as though it had been slain, standing…’ (Rev 5.6) is only four words in Greek ἀρνίον ἑστηκὸς ὡς ἐσφαγμένον yet it encapsulates the idea of Jesus as crucified and risen, conquering ...

Alex Zucker on Translation Pay - Diversity - Copyright

Last year, the Authors Guild conducted a survey of literary translators in order to get a better sense of the realities of the profession with regard to questions like pay, copyright, demographics, and other questions. The findings, which you can read here, are fascinating and well worth your time. This was the first survey of its kind, and I hope that it becomes a regular thing so that we can get better and better information about how the profession of literary translation looks in America....

Robert Burns

RB is also Roast Beef and Roland Barthes! -zas Jun 2022 Robert Burns (person) See all of Robert Burns, there is 1 more in this node. (person) by Gone Jackal (2.9 mon) Rep: 51 ( +52 / -1 ) (Rep Graph) (+) Mon Jan 15 2001 at 17:32:42 A short, oversimplified biography: Robert Burns was born on the 25th of January, 1759 in Alloway, a village in Ayrshire, Scotland, to a poor but educated farmer. Since the village was too poor to afford a school master, he was educated by his fath...

Story idea from Dream Log - 17 Aug 2000

Just an idea: make this into a real fiction story? Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Dream Log: August 17, 2000 (thing) See all of Dream Log: August 17, 2000, there are 3 more in this node. (thing) by abiessu Thu Aug 17 2000 at 13:42:15 This dream was about coffee (thanks, knifegirl! no, I'm not mad about it, it was an interesting dream . . . [this reference is from a chatterbox conversation earlier in which knifegirl mentioned coffee in some way tha...

A poem in the Bi Languahe - Joachim Ringelnatz

Gender Dictionary - Genderlect

Fully: "GENDERLECT: A GENDER DICTIONARY, WORDS RECAST – GENDERLECT.COM IS A GUIDE IN A DICTIONARY FORMAT GEARED TO REDEFINE, AND, CONSEQUENTLY, TO CLARIFY WORD MEANINGS USED IN RELATIONSHIP CONTEXTS, WORDS THAT MAY MASK TO SPEAKER AND LISTENER THE INTENT ARTICULA" Skip to content GENDERLECT: A GENDER DICTIONARY, WORDS RECAST GENDERLECT.COM IS A GUIDE IN A DICTIONARY FORMAT GEARED TO REDEFINE, AND, CONSEQUENTLY, TO CLARIFY WORD MEANINGS USED IN RELATIONSHIP CONTEXTS, WO...

Dwale - A Medieval Sleeping Drug in the Seventeenth-Century

Dwale was still known about in England in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. By Dr. Elizabeth K. HunterWellcome Trust Postdoctoral Research FellowQueen Mary University of London As part of my research into early modern sleep disorders, I have been examining the wide variety of sleep remedies available in England at the time.  Browsing through the manuscript receipt collections at the Wellcome Library in London, I came across one with...

Dick Powell’s Radio Detectives

I don’t know about you, but I get into classic star moods. Lately my obsession is Dick Powell’s voice on the radio. It’s much easier for me to work listening to old-time radio programs than it is to try to watch movies and so here I am to share a collection of Dick Powell radio detectives. I say this often when I pay tribute to a star whose voice is smooth as silk…it is made for radio. That is true of Dick Powell who brings a sharp delivery and a wonderful deep noir lilt I cannot get en...

hawse - as HAL

hawse (n.) From etymonline: "part of a ship's bow containing the hawse-holes," late 15c., from Old English or Old Norse hals "part of a ship's prow," literally "neck," from Proto-Germanic *h(w)alsaz, the general Germanic word (source also of Gothic, Danish, Swedish, Dutch, German hals), cognate with Latin collum (see collar (n.)), from PIE root from PIE root *kwel- (1) "revolve, move round; sojourn, dwell." Respelled with -aw- 16c.

Language and the Sensing Body - How Sensoriality Permeates Syntax in Interaction | Communication

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Portuguese-English False Cognates | AJE

Portuguese-English False Cognates There are certain terms that authors should be particularly aware of when translating from Portuguese to English. Also available in: português Another article features a set of false friends (or false cognates) to watch out for when translating from Spanish to English. False cognates are terms that look similar but have very different meanings. Authors translating their work need to be careful with such terms; it is easy to substitute a similar-s...

halieutuc - HAL and Ovid and salty fish

halieutic (adj.) "pertaining to fishing," 1854, from Latin halieuticus, from Greek halieutikos "pertaining to fishing," from halieuein "to fish," from hals "the sea," literally "salt" (from PIE root *sal-"salt"). Halieutics "writing on the art of fishing" is from 1640s (Latin Halieutica was the title of a poem on fishing by Ovid).

Knowledge as Taste - and sentience as experiences

Mnemonic

Definition of Mnemonic A mnemonic is a technique to save or retrieve memory in humans. Derived from the Greek word "mnemonikos," mnemonic means related to memory like its Grecian root. It is related to Mnemosyne which means remembrance. Its derivation is the goddess of memory in Grecian mythology. However, the origin of both words is "mneme" which also means memory or remembrance. Hence, it is related to the art of memory or something that helps in keeping things or data in memory. In othe...

Polyphemus and words - a profound observation in a quote in Lexicon by Max Barry

Frontiers | Suspending Syntax: Bodily Strain and Progressivity in Talk | Communication

Suspending Syntax: Bodily Strain and Progressivity in TalkDepartment of Culture and Society, Linköping University, Linköping, SwedenPeople speak not only under relaxed conditions but also during strenuous activities, and grammatical resources can be used to achieve displays of strain. This study looks at the relationship between progressivity of talk and bodily strain, focusing on the practice of temporarily suspending syntax while the speaker is accomplishing a physically challenging task. B...

Curious Meaning of Juliet’s O Romeo, Romeo, Wherefore Art Thou Romeo

In this week’s Dispatches from The Secret Library, Dr Oliver Tearle analyses the meaning of a strange Shakespearean quotation Let’s start with two correctives to common misconceptions about Romeo and Juliet. First of all, when Juliet asks her star-cross’d lover, ‘O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?’ she isn’t, of course, asking him where he is. ‘Wherefore’ means ‘why’: ‘the whys and the wherefores’ is a tautological phrase, since whys and wherefores are the same. (If we wish...