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But French literature, guys… ~What is it that all about?~ … Really, what is it about? Well, ideas. Perspectives. Western culture. The patchworks of life experience. Just remember that in the study of French literature we go by squared-up/down chunk… (A bit o’ Odilon to ease us along…) Learn more:

“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart” – politician Nelson Mandela “Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things” –Continue reading ““Learning another language…””

History’s most sophisticated art style? No, it wasn’t the High Renaissance! The ones in question with the lens so refined as to offset Michelangelo are in fact the artists who have contributed to the practice named Orphism, named after the legendary ancient Greek poet and musician Orpheus – casting harmonic circular spirals over Michelangelo’s rigidContinue reading “History’s most sophisticated art movement & the esoteric linguistic link”

Oleksandr Balbyshev b. 1985 Ienki Ienki Ivan Marchuk b. 1936 Anna October We must not allow the vibrant creative scene of this amazing country to be also destroyed by this unnecessary war!

Louise Nevelson (1899-1988), b. Leah Berliawsky in Pereiaslav Ivan Frolov Kazimir Malevich (1879-1935), b. Kazimir Severinovich Malevich in Kiev Julie Paskal

My last post on Ukraine. Sonia Delaunay-Terk (1885-1979), b. Sarah Elievna Shtern, or Sofia Ilinitchna Terk, in Odessa, or Hradyzk Henry Zankov Maria Prymachenko (1909-97), b. Maria Oksentiyivna Prymachenko in Bolotnia Natasha Zinko b. 📍Odessa

Hands. They’re very useful, especially to write with. But originally language was only spoken, and not recorded in written format. The written format of human language was something that was actively instituted or invented at some point. As far as we know, the oldest writing system is Mesopotamian cuneiform (e.g.) created ca. 3200BC around whatContinue reading “BCP Q: why do we write?”

Were they human?

Camille Pissarro (Jacob Abraham Camille Pissarro, 1830-1903), one of the world’s most important painters for his attitude…! What can linguists learn from French painting?

One vital thing to take away as Russia doggedly continues to rob space in our newsfeeds and cleave our souls over their invasion of neighbouring Ukraine, Putin only strengthening his resolve to undermine Ukrainian sovereignty even as he is condemned by the world for this gruesome besmirchment of democratic spirit, is that the Ukrainians haveContinue reading “What we can now say of Ukraine”