Comments on: For The Love Of Language http://blog.oup.com/2008/11/love_language/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Sun, 19 May 2013 05:35:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Brokenwhole http://blog.oup.com/2008/11/love_language/#comment-149703 Brokenwhole Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:28:13 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=2429#comment-149703 Oh, by the way, I'm adding your blog to my (short) blogroll. Keith Oh, by the way, I’m adding your blog to my (short) blogroll. Keith

]]> By: Brokenwhole http://blog.oup.com/2008/11/love_language/#comment-149702 Brokenwhole Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:27:40 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=2429#comment-149702 It's always great to come across a blog that writes about your own interests. I love that you say about kids "that they have not yet had their irrepressible enjoyment of language scolded out of them". That's exactly what happens in schools, not just with language, but with most scholarly subjects. I write occasionally about words, in particular, my desire to fit in my own private collection of sweet words such as "crie de coeur, "retroussé" and "Auto da fe". Coincidentally, I just wrote a blog entry yesterday about my favorite German words that have worked their way into occasional usage in the English language (http://brokenwholeblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/sehnsucht.html). I hope you never loose your joy in words. Take care, Keith It’s always great to come across a blog that writes about your own interests. I love that you say about kids “that they have not yet had their irrepressible enjoyment of language scolded out of them”. That’s exactly what happens in schools, not just with language, but with most scholarly subjects.

I write occasionally about words, in particular, my desire to fit in my own private collection of sweet words such as “crie de coeur, “retroussé” and “Auto da fe”. Coincidentally, I just wrote a blog entry yesterday about my favorite German words that have worked their way into occasional usage in the English language (http://brokenwholeblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/sehnsucht.html).

I hope you never loose your joy in words. Take care, Keith

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