Articles in category 'Language'

This is a 4 part series. We will be presenting one part at a time.
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By Ben, 8/7/2008, 11:37 pm o'clock

Glossolalia (from Greek glossa γλώσσα “tongue, language” and lalô λαλώ “speak, speaking”) is the practice of making unintelligible utterances, often as part of religious practices. Frederic William Farrar first used the word glossolalia in 1879. [1]
Xenoglossy “the phenomenon of uttering intelligible words of a language unknown to the speaker” which some authors use interchangeably with […]

By Ben, 8/21/2007, 10:47 am o'clock

Towards a linguagenesis. What is it with some humans that seek the ultimate origin of things? I quote Amadeus the Stampede “if you don’t know where you’re from you ain’t never gonna’ know where you’re going.”
I have this conversation with SPEKS in our correspondences. Terence quotes McLuhan saying, “we drive into the […]

By Ben, 7/23/2007, 2:21 am o'clock