Tag: linguistics

  • Roger Ebert, book body parts, and art speak: Bookishness for Apr. 8, 2013

    Roger Ebert, book body parts, and art speak: Bookishness for Apr. 8, 2013

    A speculatively ruptured transversal Your guide to International Art English. The Toronto Public Library and the Case of the Missing Money “In classic murder mysteries, the detective looks for motive, method and opportunity. Councillors have the opportunity and the method to cut back on the library but what could possibly be their motive?” AskingĀ “Why does…

  • Office patois: Business language and what it means to speak it

    Office patois: Business language and what it means to speak it

    Ah, business language. It is a concept that gets more interesting the longer you consider it. Native to the office environment, it is a linguistic transition that individuals in a professional setting just automatically consent to as a group. They engage in a mass translation of simple everyday thoughts into a jumbled creation of formal…