English
Self-control
21 June 2010
Speaking of email addiction, I think the topic can be extended just a bit. I enjoyed this clip from Joshua Harris speaking on the subject. […]
Chant
27 April 2010
Chant is a way of musically speaking prose texts—in particular, religious texts. One advantage of chant over other types of singing is that any prose text can be sung. This means, for example, that the Psalms do not need to be paraphrased metrically; they can be sung as-is. […]
Syntactical ambiguity
6 April 2010
Syntactical ambiguity refers to how the syntax, or grammar, of a phrase or sentence can be taken more than one way. Usually it’s obvious to native speakers which meaning is meant.[…]
Quiz: Answers
31 March 2010
To score the three submissions for my trivia quiz, I followed the following scheme:[…]