August 19, 2018
Last weekend, driving to the Burren in County Clare (just south of Galway, where I live, and an endlessly interesting place to explore), a friend and I picked up the relevant Ordinance Survey map to get a better sense of the terrain.
Maps are a reliable source of pleasure, firing the imagination as we pore over their flattened geography, their special codes and symbols. Digital maps are ubiquitous now, but I still love to use paper maps when the opportunity arises.
View of Co. Clare from Mullaghmore (‘Great Summit’ or ‘Big Summit’)
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August 1, 2015
For your weekend reading and viewing pleasure, a selection of recent language-related links from around the web:
Love letters to trees.
How to design a metaphor.
Two medieval monks invent writing.
The United Swears of America, in maps.
On the political power of African American names.
Asperitas: the first new cloud name since 1951.
The emerging science of human screams.
Telegraphic abbreviations of the 19thC.
Secret language games, aka ludlings.
Managing weight in typeface design.
Zodiac signs for linguists.
A stone talking to itself.
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