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Apr.22.2013
Like most Americans, I’m terrible at learning languages. I’ve studied several, but only varying amounts of each language stuck. Of course, I should’ve started when I was a small child, but elementary schools didn’t teach languages then...
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Apr.13.2013
As if using words was not difficult enough in the English language (and it is), there are certain words which actually mean the opposite of what they mean. Or, put another way, they mean the opposite of that they mean. Here is a list of fourteen words which have this push/pull. [DE...
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Jan.26.2013
I've heard people use the word "hodgepodge" to describe the crazy blend of Hindi and English heard on the streets of New Delhi and Bombay, in Bollywood movies, and around Indian dinner tables. It's been called a jumble, a mess, a corruption of English or Hindi or both. Linguists have a technical...
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Jan.24.2013
Photo: Brown University's University Building, built in 1770. From Brown University's Wikipedia page.
A few quick things:
--It's my birthday, and I need some lovins. Cuz I'm old.
--Having a writers group meeting at my house tomorrow between 5pm and whenever....
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Jan.21.2013
When I started doing book reviews on this blog, I made two promises to myself:
1) I would only write positive reviews. This isn't because I love every book I read--far from it--but because I am averse to publicly lambasting other people's writing. I decided that, if I don't like something I'...
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Jan.16.2013
We spent five days in Delhi, then jostled our way to Agra, home of the Taj Mahal and the astounding Agra Fort, where Shah Jahan--the emperor who had the Taj built--was imprisoned by his own son. My students stared and were stared at, took in the stunning beauty of the sights, and took photo after...
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Jan.09.2013
Growing up in Israel, I was used, from an early age, to read translated literature and to watch movies with subtitles. As children we read stories translated from many different languages: English, Russian, Polish, German, French, Swedish and Italian. Some of the books were even...
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Jan.08.2013
I was one of those girls who got grammar. I racked up A’s in English because the rules made sense to me. Diagramming sentences was my favorite part of school. I loved discovering how the different parts of a sentence fit together in an elegant, efficient arrangement. I completely bought the notion...
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Jan.01.2013
The Taj MahalPhoto by Muhammad Mahdi Karim
2013 is going to be an exciting year at The Writing as a Sacred Path Blog. The spring is starting off with a bang. Here are some previews of coming attractions:
My Journey to India. Beginning January 5th, I’ll be taking a select group of...
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Dec.04.2012
How English is English? Will we ever know why an editor deleted words of foreign origin from the Oxford English Dictionary? Was he a racist? Or a purist? In the socio-historical context, both these words have been used interchangeably a few times. Nazism and apartheid do believe they...
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