Language
Language being one of my interests
as a result of being taught French at the age of six, of
attending a grammar school where they taught us not only Latin but (ancient) Greek
in the top stream, and where I learnt Russian in evening classes for three years,
of working in France and Germany in my twenties and of
getting involved with a Russian lady (though she didn't teach me any Russian)
was that I am interested in languages in general, and in
the highest standards in the use of the English language in particular.
Here are a few pieces I have written on this vast theme.
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Linguisticians are not all linguists | ... but they persist in misappropriating the term! Why? the lowest kind of intellectual snobbery, based on some criminally incompetent research in their own speciality |
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OuLiPo, lipograms, and pataphysics | a look at a Parisian society of poets, mathematicians and other literary eccentrics. |
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Undefinitions | A few original items of a type also known as Daffynitions puns that might be well suited to appear in the Uxbridge English Dictionary |
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The furore over “Paki” | Fuss over a remark by Prince Harry released 3 years later (in 2009) |
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A writer's bibliography | some of the books about language and writing to be found in my shelves |
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Spoken English | My pet hates regarding speakers from anywhere |
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Spoken British English | My likes/dislikes from the UK |
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Spoken American English | My likes/dislikes from the USA |
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Written English | My pet hates regarding writers from anywhere |