Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag. Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
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Your Only Possessions
Posted in Knowledge, Language, Travel on November 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Is It Worth It?
Posted in Language on February 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The reason it’s worth standing up for punctuation is not that it’s an arbitrary system of notation known only to an over-sensitive elite who have attacks of the vapours when they see it misapplied. The reason to stand up for punctuation is that without it there is no reliable way of communicating meaning. Lynne Truss, [...]
Two Orators
Posted in Language, Politics, tagged eloquence, Michael Dirda, oratory, speech on October 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It is reported that when Pericles spoke, the people said, “How well he speaks.” But when Demosthenes spoke, the people said, “Let us march.” Michael Dirda, Book by Book, pg. 132
