Antipodes

In my own mind, this linguistic question arises often. For example, in the case of my preceding blog post, I wasn’t quite sure whether I sh...

An urban child, strolling along a rural road with his parents, came upon a carpet of acorns beneath an oak tree, and he asked his parents wh...

The other day, my ex-neighbor Bob called in to pick up his mail. He was driven here by his female companion. Bob had a broken collar-bone a...

Herman Who? Baroness What? Herman Van Rompuy , that's who : the 62-year-old prime minister of a charming land named Belgium, with two c...

I've already evoked the brilliant books of the Canadian-American psychologist Steven Pinker . He's best tackled, I believe, by The L...

In the following NASA image, the dense white horizontal bars that look like gigantic clouds indicate the shifting location of the Intertrop...

A moment ago, in the French press, I jumped to a one-word headline: Earthquake . I imagined immediately that the ground had probably shaken ...

I've been reading Steven Pinker 's bestseller about language, published back in 1994, entitled The Language Instinct . It is indeed ...

One often imagines that, in France, everybody speaks French. Well, the situation is far more complex than that. Throughout the République (...

There's talk in my native Australia about the fact that the new prime minister Kevin Rudd is not exactly an impressive orator. I agree....