On a major network special covering the effect that global warming is having on the melting Andean glaciers, a local farmer was quoted as having asked the following question:
“Why are the mountains crying?”
His metaphor is poignant, comparing the melting glacier waters rolling down the mountain slopes to human tears, inflicting the sadness and frustration that […]
Multiple meaning words spread throughout the English language reeking havoc on the substance of sentences.
Homographs, or words that are spelled the same but have different meanings, may or may not have different pronunciations, which adds even more madness to the mayhem.
Are English speakers just too lazy to invent new words, and if not, why do […]
In today’s highly-educated society, it’s impossible for modern fiction authors to know more about any one subject than all of their readers, and this has resulted in the decline of realism in modern literature.
It’s no secret that modern mankind is able to comprehend at levels far beyond any other time in history, as the spread […]
