Change your words, change your world
Why is this page here? Shouldn't this be all about learning English?
Yes - but learning a (foreign) language also means to think about many things around 'language',
such as knowing and learning about the culture of other countries (or better people),
understanding and appreciating the fact, that languages are different from one another in many respects
and about what communications means and can do for us in general.
Yes - but learning a (foreign) language also means to think about many things around 'language',
such as knowing and learning about the culture of other countries (or better people),
understanding and appreciating the fact, that languages are different from one another in many respects
and about what communications means and can do for us in general.
So this is dedicated to little bits and pieces about exactly THIS :
the miracle we call LANGUAGE.
Enjoy!
the miracle we call LANGUAGE.
Enjoy!
Thanks Ute - you gave me the inspiration for this site here :-)
“Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back
than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.”
― Jodi Picoult, Salem Falls
than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.”
― Jodi Picoult, Salem Falls
“Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between
different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
What is a Babel fish?
"The Babel fish is small, yellow, leech-like, and probably the oddest thing in the Universe. It feeds on brainwave energy received not from its own carrier, but from those around it. It absorbs all unconscious mental frequencies from this brainwave energy to nourish itself with. It then excretes into the mind of its carrier a telepathic matrix formed by combining the conscious thought frequencies with nerve signals picked up from the speech centres of the brain which has supplied them. The practical upshot of all this is that if you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language. The speech patterns you actually hear decode the brainwave matrix which has been fed into your mind by your Babel fish."
“Poetry: the best words in the best order.”
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 14: Table Talk.
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 14: Table Talk.
Read one of the very funny poems by Roald Dahl:
::: Attention please! Attention please! :::