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Wednesday Word: Confess/Adopt

Posted on October 6, 2011 by

I confess… I would adopt these kittens. But the words “confess” and “adopt” – same or different? In the theory of translation, we talk about “areas of meaning.” For a word (or phrase), its unique area of meaning is all … Continue reading →

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Wednesday Word: Nothing

Posted on September 14, 2011 by

Welcome to those searching for “Nothing”! If you like this post about “nothing,” you might enjoy some of this blog’s other posts about “something” else… Well, okay. This week’s Wednesday word is not “nothing.” But I want to point out … Continue reading →

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Wednesday Word: Deny

Posted on September 8, 2011 by

This week’s blog will be a bit negative. I don’t deny it. There is a figure of speech called litotes. You all use it without realizing it. Every time you say something like, “Not too shabby!” or, “That’s not the … Continue reading →

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Wednesday Word: Mother-Father!

Posted on August 30, 2011 by

Who you gonna call?   (Mom and Dad, of course) Exclamations are a fun part of language. They don’t necessarily fit all the patterns. And sometimes, kin terms and other surprising words are shouted out to express deep feeling. You … Continue reading →

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Wednesday Word: That!

Posted on August 23, 2011 by

Today the Wednesday Word is “that.” Wait… isn’t that kind of simplistic? Yeah, I know. What could we possibly say about the word “that”? Thanks for asking. Let me explain… LANGUAGE… As a translator, language is what I work with. … Continue reading →

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Wednesday Word: Running with Scissors

Posted on April 13, 2011 by

This week’s Wednesday Word is actually a whole group of words, the set which linguists (using their technical parlance) call “words which act weird.” Ordinary nouns have a singular (one parakeet) and a plural form (two parakeets or even a … Continue reading →

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Wednesday Word: Fur (Hair)

Posted on April 1, 2011 by

What does snow have in common with manure? Well, both are used as idioms in English to describe words which are used to deceive (snow job, B.S. or bull). Palawano uses a completely different word for the same figure of … Continue reading →

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