02 November 2017 Language And How To Lose It Evolution not devolution. By Lynda Goetz Last week language featured in two articles in the Shaw Sheet. Its importance to human cultures, ventures and civilisations cannot be over-estimated. Some scientists have argued that language, as opposed simply to communication, is one of the features which distinguishes… Continue reading Issue 127: 2017 11 02: Language and how to lose it (Lynda Goetz)
Tag: French Language
Issue 69:2016 09 01: Keeping it Clear (Richard Pooley)
01 September 2016 Keeping It Clear Why the British need to learn how to speak English… to foreigners (part 1) by Richard Pooley It must be frustrating sometimes being a French foreign correspondent. Even though French is spoken by 274 million people around the world, half of them live in Africa and a quarter in… Continue reading Issue 69:2016 09 01: Keeping it Clear (Richard Pooley)
Issue 14: 2015 08 06 Across the Rhine
6 August 2015 Across the Rhine By Chin Chin Turn your car west in the fastnesses of the Black forest, cross the Rhine just north of Basel and drive through Alsace into the lush countryside of Burgundy. Physically it is only a drive of a couple of hundred miles but culturally the two ends of… Continue reading Issue 14: 2015 08 06 Across the Rhine
