An author can't be trusted to say what he wrote? Who would know better? What arguments can possibly justify the idea that an author cannot analyse his own writing. After all, he knows what's on the...
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An author can't be trusted to say what he wrote? Who would know better? What arguments can possibly justify the idea that an author cannot analyse his own writing. After all, he knows what's on the...
Muhsin, yes I am a linguist. Just out of curiosity, what is your native language(s)?
I hate to tell anyone they don't know what they're talking about, but I find myself coming dangerously close. As mentioned before, Persian pluralizes animate objects with an 'n' and Persian is most...
I think this is where you are confused. English did not come from a need for the Normans to communicate with the Anglo-Saxons. That's why it's not a pidgin. English was already loosing many of its...
I have no idea where you got this information from, but you are wrong.
English evolved like any other language. In fact, at the same time English was evolving evolved so did Old Nordic AND German...
I agree, there are many genres of music and there are many genres of literature. What you asked was why should we limit outrselves to novels, short stories, poetry, etc, which are not genres of...
It most certainly. Both of them are considered pre-cursors to the ultimate Impressionistic movement, particularly Turner whose paintings are usually hazy fields of pale hues with startling bursts of...
English is a very simple language grammatically. In fact, as far as languages go in the world, to my knowledge, only Chinese has a simpler grammaratical structure, so learning grammar in English is...
I love westerns, and I think louis L'Amour's books are great, definitely a kind of literature in their own right. I don't think L'Amour was a great novellist, in fact his stories are all really...
I'm not so sure that you are right. I don't think we can judge modern literature as we are too close to it, only time can tell what will survive and often time allows some of the most obscure,...
It was my pleasure.
Well, I think when it comes to understanding any other culture value statements such as "ruining morality" needn't be used, and it may also be pointed out that appreciating a culture has very little...
Very good edit, you have nearly taken the diamond out of the rough. Maybe one more time through and it will be done (I know you mentioned you don't like editing, but I am insane about it. My short...
I think the ways to understand any foreign culture are the same. The trick is to put aside prejudice (not just prejudice in a negative sense, but rather all preconceived ideas of another culture) and...
The torture in 1984 was a very important part of the integration process and operates in a fundamentally different way than just interrogation. O'Brien's goal was not just to get Wilson to admit...
Couldn't this just result from the natural dichotomy of light representing a pure, powerful force, and the dark representing the evil and unknown? Does it specifically mean Tolkien was a racist? I'd...
It doesn't take torture to create bonding as strong as the Spartans had. Have you talked to modern soldier who have gone through war? It's the same for them as the Spartans.
I agree. I'm not saying that college is limited to the liberal arts either, but if someone simply wants to make an investigation into philosophy without the intention of getting a degree, I think...
This question hits very closely for me and my view of education. I honestly believe there is nothing that can be gotten out of college that can not be gotten out of an honest self-study, provided you...
Affectation in speech always annoys me, so much to the point that often I am simply unwilling to hear what the person says. A fake accent brings to mind all kinds of questions that detract from the...
How does a language 'steal' words? When any language encounters a foriegn idea not present in its own idion it either creates a new word or takes a loan word, sometimes one happens, sometimes the...
I don't mean to being up an old argument, but technically there is no accusative or dative in modern English, rather there is an oblique case used for pronouns. Techincally an accusative has a set...
Greene wrote both literature and what he called 'entertainments' so some of his books are intended to be great pieces of writing and others are just supposed to be pulp. It's usually pretty easy to...
Well, Greene never intended to publish the novella to the Third Man. He only wrote it to help him write the screenplay for the movie, so if you want to get a sense of what The Third Man REALLY is you...
I am a huge fan of Graham Greene's, though I've never read The End of the Affair (if I remember correctly that was about the love affair in London during the bombings? It's a little different than...