language – Lefty Forrester

Inventing Words and Describing Feelings

William Shakespeare is known for many things, like being difficult to understand for high school students. He wrote some sonnets too. My favorite is #104. Also, he invented and popularized a lot of words including dishearten, frugal, and premeditated. That is according to nosweatshakespeare.com, which sounds like a biased source. I didn’t bother to delveContinue reading “Inventing Words and Describing Feelings”

Some Sentences and Phrases that Need Context

Language is one of the most incredible tools that humanity has. I love it. I only know one language, English [obviously], and I know that English gets a bad rap for not making sense, having strange spellings and contradictions, but I love it. I do. Human beings have contradictions! Anyway, whatever language you speak, theContinue reading “Some Sentences and Phrases that Need Context”