Hello there!
Yes, I’ve been away for a little while again. Between Saturday and Thursday, I was on a well-earned holiday to the Basque Country.
Euskal Herria
language thoughts
Laurel or Yanny?
Laurel, obviously.
A Nice Ring to it
While writing about the word Bluetooth the other day, I was struck by how obviously unusual it seems for a name for wireless technology, yet how equally not unusual at all it seems.
Why is it Called Bluetooth?
I recently bought a new pair of earphones. Usually after I buy a pair, I lose the little ear cushions that come with them one by one. One will fall off while taking them out of my pocket, so I’ll replace the remaining one with two of the ones that come with them. Then I’ll lose one of those, so I’ll resort to the final pair, which are usually too big or too small. And then I’ll lose another one, and have to start using different sized ones: small in the left ear, and big in the right one, for example. Continue reading
Bohemian Rhapsody
Why do we call a free-spirited artistic type a bohemian? Continue reading
What Does Thanos Mean?
About a week or so ago, when Avengers: Infinity War was released, I thought, I wonder if there’s any interesting points related to language raised by the Avengers and their ancillary characters? If you clicked on that link in the first line of the paragraph, or read this post inspired by Black Panther, you can see that these films often give me a lot to think about.
Mundane
It’s hardly complimentary to refer to something as mundane.
Yet if I referred to someone as worldly, that would be a compliment. Which is odd, because mundane and worldly basically mean the same thing.
English-Language Thoughts 