Another Poetic Interlude

Language is my first love.

When I discovered the joy of the scientific method I applied it to language.

The study of linguistics can be incredibly boring or a source of great joy.  The choice is there to be made.  It's a matter of approach.   You can, perhaps, switch off your emotions and study with cold logic, or switch off the logic and get so emotional that you end up talking rubbish.

There is a third way.

Let logic map out the landscape, but let emotion decide which bit of it you are going to ramble through today, just for the sheer joy of it.

A Brit Celebrates July 4th


I've only been writing here for just over a year.  From day one I have been made to feel very welcome, and I want to thank everyone here and all of my readers for that.  Of course, Hank gets the biggest and bestest thank you.

But I want to go further.  Science 2.0 gives me an intellectual freedom which can only exist where freedom of speech is cherished.

I was born just after WW2 had ended.  I grew up knowing what a great debt I owed to the brave men and women of all nations who fought a tyranny under which I might never have learned the meaning of freedom.