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Category Archives: Language
From the land of vanity plates: Vanna, I’d like to buy a vowel
Sometimes deciphering personalized license plates is a little like reading Hebrew without the vowel points. You have to figure out which vowel to choose so that the word or phrase makes sense. That was the case with this one, though … Continue reading
Posted in Language, License plates, Theology
Tagged Buy American, church, Easter, forgiveness, Jaguar, Theology, Vanna White
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Asking along with Avril: Complicated (A free write exercise)
Things have become complicated. I read once that language atrophies. The theory was proposed by some linguist (memory says it was the introduction to J. Gresham Machen’s New Testament Greek for Beginners. but memory does not serve me all that … Continue reading
Posted in Language, Questions, Writing
Tagged Beach Boys, Beatles, Gillettte, J. Gresham Machen, Pat Boone, Rolling Stones, Sanskrit, Tenessee Ernie Ford
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A certain fondness
I am admitting up front, right here and now, that I have a certain fondness for colloquialisms. The phrases that “sing” to me in normal conversations are most often those that sum up in a single well worn phrase a … Continue reading
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