Notes from a small house I
Inexact questions, kids being lawyers, an avalanche of artwork, and a forlorn-looking dog who can’t make up his mind
Richard Allardice
Bible game show
Evangelical churches, doomsday youth group, and a Mormons playing grid iron – trying to understand the things your mum sent me to, as a kid
#25 ⭐ Figuring out what you mean by just saying everything; also, brrm cars 🚗
What’s in the box? 🎁
* I don’t watch Top Gear and know nothing about motorsports, so it’s only natural that the thing of the week is about cars. 🚙 🏎️
* The latest podcast, on language and working out what things mean. 🎙️
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Podcast 7: Wait, what did you say? Part I
Today’s episode is about language and working out what things mean – generally by saying the wrong things first, and then looking back on them to either laugh or cringe. Features:
* Blurts and faux pas – when you don’t know what the right thing to say is until you’ve
#24 ☎️ Mouth those vowels out loud 🐻
What exactly IS the difference between a hare and a rabbit?Portmanteau of the
week 🍔
There’s a special kind of linguistic satisfaction (and cheekiness) in kneading
together words to see what combinations might be greater than the sum of their
parts. It was supposedly Lewis Carroll who first used
A Kiwi tendency for homophones
Bears, hares and wondering where – notes on the hilarious linguistic laziness of Kiwi English
#23 🏃 Your urgency is not necessarily my urgency ⏰
Will children who now mostly read time digitally understand “clockwise” and
“anticlockwise”?Phrase of the week: Tick tick tick ⏰
I found the quote “Your urgency is not necessarily my urgency” in an old diary
list of things I wanted to keep in mind at work. It was to remind myself