Wednesday, October 8 2008
Wednesday, October 8 2008. the other words
I'm being lazy today, and I am just translating an article I wrote quite some time ago on my other (dead) blog, which explores the way words are interpreted with a cultural filter. The full title for this post was The Bowl Theory, or The Dictionary Has its Reasons Which Reason Does Not Know [1] Let […]
Tuesday, April 22 2008
Tuesday, April 22 2008. the other words
Our neighbours are what one would call a really truly multilingual family. The mother is Swedish, the father is Italian. Together they speak English. The kids speak Swedish with their mother, Italian with their father. They lived the first years of their life in Switzerland, which means the children […]
Thursday, December 13 2007
Thursday, December 13 2007. the other words
I have been working on an international survey in the past few days, which is being answered by 11 teams of 11 different countries. And one thing really struck me in the way answers were given to certain questions. It was not so much the actual content of the answer which I found striking, but […]
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