All man talk sweet sweet but one talk sweet pass and make you no fit think From the world’s loveliest language A fun article from The Economist. (It’s one of those mags I like to quote from where you can read a few articles a month without a paying subscription).
Thanks for this. I bought Philip Ball’s book but it’s been wrenched sideways, off the bedside table, by a crush of other books. You’ve brought it back to life and I’ll get to it.
Loved the piece on language - tok pisin or Neo-Melanesian - I purchased a little primer when in PNG in 1980. And of course - all fluently spoken languages have a flow - little a stream over rocks - burbling away or a whisperiness of leaves in a breeze - some musicality - Chinese, or Japanese or tieng Viet or Russian, German, French, Spanish - of a language such as that spoken by the Yolngu of north-east Arnhem Land or the Warlbiri of Yuendumu - of any Pacific Island country .... First nations of North America.... Also appreciated the art - the photograph of Frantz Fanon - and some of the philosophical musings on life and its parts...
Thanks for this. I bought Philip Ball’s book but it’s been wrenched sideways, off the bedside table, by a crush of other books. You’ve brought it back to life and I’ll get to it.
Loved the piece on language - tok pisin or Neo-Melanesian - I purchased a little primer when in PNG in 1980. And of course - all fluently spoken languages have a flow - little a stream over rocks - burbling away or a whisperiness of leaves in a breeze - some musicality - Chinese, or Japanese or tieng Viet or Russian, German, French, Spanish - of a language such as that spoken by the Yolngu of north-east Arnhem Land or the Warlbiri of Yuendumu - of any Pacific Island country .... First nations of North America.... Also appreciated the art - the photograph of Frantz Fanon - and some of the philosophical musings on life and its parts...