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Category Archives: Reviews
Paradox of the evolutionary metaphor in language death
When Languages Die: Science and Sentiment : In his book When Languages Die: The Extinction of the World’s Languages and the Erosion of Human Knowledge K. David Harrison illustrates the individual face of language loss, as well as its global … Continue reading
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Hitchens vs Hitchens | the Daily Mail
Hitchens vs Hitchens | the Daily Mail If we are weak and poor, we can all summon up self-interested decency, behaving in a kind way, in public, towards those from whom we hope for decency in return. But as soon … Continue reading
Posted in God, Philosophy, Reviews, Society and politics
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Accepted, the review – Images of the educational process in popular culture
From the Wikipedia entry: Accepted is a 2006 comedy motion picture about a group of high school seniors who, after being rejected from all colleges to which they had applied, create their own college. … At one point Bartleby [the … Continue reading
Tom Waits and the surface of text
ANTI- Album – Orphans What’s Orphans? I don’t know. Orphans is a dead end kid driving a coffin with big tires across the Ohio River wearing welding goggles and a wife beater with a lit firecracker in his ear. Just … Continue reading
Posted in Cognition, Linguistics, Literature and narrative, Reviews
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Of dicks and doves: Team America cognitive semireview
YouTube – Team America Finale Speech PhatGun (3 months ago) HAHAHAHAHHAHAHA SO TRUE!!! Tomster22 (19 hours ago) Neo-Cons = Dicks, Peacenicks = Pussies, Islamo-Fascists = Assholes AerisRocks (2 months ago) lol! Thats a great metaphor they used…assholes want us to … Continue reading
Revenge of the Nerds (1984) – Review 1
Revenge of the Nerds (1984) They’ve been laughed at, picked on and put down. But now it’s time for the odd to get even! I decided it’s time to start keeping track of my frequent encounters with popular culture – … Continue reading
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