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Crom’s Deep Dive: Richard III, Act 1 Scene 1

18th March 2023 Going Postal 0

A small confession: my first introduction to this opening soliloquy was as a child on a Saturday afternoon from none other than Arnold Judas Rimmer in Red Dwarf. He and Lister are marooned and, to [more…]

Arts

Macbeth Act 1 Scene 1

4th March 2023 Going Postal 0

Welcome to the second of Crom’s Deep Dives. I was touched by some of your comments on the first of this series and found they motivated me to find the time to commence this second [more…]

Arts

Crom’s Deep Dive: Richard II, Act 3 Scene 2

25th February 2023 Going Postal 1

“Let’s talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs” The first in this series of Deep Dives will look at the language and linguistic devices employed in Act 3, Scene 2 of Shakespeare’s Richard II. First, [more…]

Literature

Language today! Progress? No!

2nd April 2022 Fred Brownbill 0

I do not know about you all but I am disgusted daily at what passes as normal and correct language. Swear words are the normal. I understand having been many years military and law enforcement [more…]

Arts

Sorrows of a Language Lover

19th August 2021 Going Postal 0

The purpose of language is communication.  Anything which muddies the language is the enemy of communication, and something which deliberately obscures the meaning of the words is the work of the Devil. I want to [more…]

Arts

Confessions of a Language Lover

28th July 2021 Going Postal 0

“Grammar Nazi”: the words spit out at me from the screen.  Because the paucity of the allusion profoundly depresses me, I have decided to spare the complainants personal embarrassment by no longer highlighting their individual [more…]

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This and next …..

21st April 2021 rattuscatchus 0

It was a fine Thursday evening as Mr. and Mrs. RC were out for their daily perambulation as permitted by Reichmarschall des Grossdeutchen Reiches Johnson. They were discussing arrangements of when relatives were to visit. [more…]

Arts

Filth!

19th October 2020 Always Worth Saying 0

Nothing spoils a joke more than having to explain it. There are six rules of humour. No there aren’t, there are eleven types of comedy. That’s not true, there are nine ways to make people [more…]

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The Encyclopedia of Lost Languages

7th May 2019 Guardian Council 0

During my recent foray to visit some elderly relatives in Chemnitz, a place formerly known as Karl-Marx-Stadt (named after that famous German philosopher without whose political theories Herr Hitler would have been an impossibility), and [more…]

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