Post navigation
A quick overview of the recent edition of BBC Radio 4’s Word of Mouth;
Acronyms: The apex of absurdity in our 21st century communications;
Why don’t we have a little more anthropology in our lives?
Continue reading →
Posted
in Uncategorised
|
Tagged 2007/08 financial crash , acronym , anthro-vision , anthropology , artificial intelligence , backronym , bullshit , bullshit jargon , cory doctorow , dave gorman , david graeber , economics , fasterthanlime , financial times , fragments of an anarchist anthropology , gillian tett , google , michael rosen , nasb 2 , poe's law , ragequitting , sam altman , the algorithm (tm) , there is no alternative , troy sobotka , word of mouth
English is one of, if not the hardest foreign language to learn. There’s so many little things about it that are as though we’ve made them up as a sick joke.
The solution? According to one guy, do what we’ve always done: crib some notes from other languages.
Continue reading →
Posted
in Uncategorised
|
Tagged english , it's an abstract kind of hell , language , orson welles , orthography , phonology , pronunciation , the internet con , troy sobotka , writing , yes always
Post navigation
