A Case of the Twiggles
I’m sure most of you have heard of Web 2.0. Essentially, it encompasses web technology that facilitates creativity, information sharing and collaboration among users. The practical and most visible effect of 2.0 is the development of self-propagating and self-sustaining web-based communities and social networking sites, wikis, blogs and so on.
Tech blog A List Apart gives […]
So To Speak
In case you were wondering, the interacting processes of respiration, phonation and articulation used in speaking are activated, coordinated and monitored by acoustical and kinesthetic feedback through the nervous system. Whew! Fully half of our 12 cranial nerves send motor fibers to the 50 facial muscles that are involved in the production of speech. Add […]
Finding Style in Forgotten English
I love the English language. I am referring here to the richness and texture of the language and the myriad of ways in which it allows itself to be used.
Depending on who does the counting and how, the English language comprises a half million plus words, not including what some philologists refer to as word […]
