For a long time, Catalan fiction was eclipsed by books in Spanish but these days it's flourishing, says translator and editorGala Sicart. Here, she recommends four of the best contemporary Catalan novels and one book of short stories, from the classic Mercè Rodoreda to her 21st-century equi...
Word-initial entropy in five languages: Letter to sound and sound to letter. Written Language & Literacy, 7, 165-184. doi:10.1075/ wll.7.2.03borBorgwaldt, S., Hellwig, F., & de Groot, A. (2004). Word-initial entropy in five languages: Letter to sound, and sound to letter. ...
Back home, Mickey is seduced by the simplicity of her old life–and the flirtation of a former flame–but her life in New York refuses to be forgotten. When a media scandal catapults Mickey’s forgotten letter into the public zeitgeist, suddenly everyone wants to hear what Mickey has to sa...
In the same letter to his sister, Walton adds that before he became an explorer he "became a poet, and for one year lived in a Paradise of my own creation." The idea of a paradise of one's own creation is itself regressive and narcissistic, implying as it does that the self is all...
The best books onCancer, recommended by Jarle Breivik Read 2 Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande Many of us view cancer as an enemy that we have to fight and look forward to the day it is eliminated by modern medicine. But that's not going to happen, ...
Tape down the ends of the pipe cleaner so that young hands don’t experience that particular sense of touch! Clip off the extra pipe cleaner and save it for the candy cane page and binding. Step 7: “Taste” the Candy Cane Saving the best for last! Poke two holes in the page, as ...
So important was Mashtots's 32-letter creation that, after his death, he was granted sainthood in the Armenian church. Since I speak absolutely no Armenian, when wandering through this exhibit I was at no point distracted by trying to read the books laid open to illustrate the various ...
The psalmist constructs this hymn as an elaborate acrostic poem that moves artfully through each letter of the Hebrew alphabet. Essentially, all the elements of this psalm combine to emphasize the importance of God’s Word to His people, to the praise and glory of the one True God....
1 How to Write a Personal Letter2 Courtesy:Key to a Happier World3 Sunday in the ParkUNIT TWO4 Ambition5 Human Intelligence Isn't What We Think It Is6 Kratylus Automates His UrnworksUNIT THREE7 Father and Son8 A Clean,Well-Lighted Place9 Robert Frost's Favorite P...
Even unusual letters like Z and J are silent in words that we have adopted from foreign languages, such as marijuana (originally a Spanish word) and laissez-faire (French). But as Merriam-Webster Dictionary points out, one unusual letter is never silent: the letter V. While it makes an ...