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...pleasures are so enormous and no one knows about it,” says Robert. It’s our lost native language??it’s our connection to truth...
Much of the strongest criticism of TFs comes from students taking math and science classes. Students in those fields frequently accuse their TFs of lacking fundamental teaching skills—often including command of the English language??that are necessary to elucidate complex theories. These criticisms can seem exaggerated and occasionally obnoxious, but perhaps early hiring practices may make a significant difference to the quality of TFs in the sciences. It may also not significantly improve the standard of teaching in that area. After taking only three Core classes in math and science, I can?...
...another dating from 1667, asserts that Hebrew is the “natural language?? by pointing out features of the language such as the shape that the mouth assumes when pronouncing the names of the letters...
...rhetoric that surrounds this war is about anesthetizing ourselves to the ambiguities of language??because good language complicates more than it mobilizes, questions more than it condemns. In the quadrants between the axes of evil, it becomes harder to cast Saddam as Stalin incarnate, harder to lambast “old Europe” as terrorist-sympathizing dilettantes, and harder to see ourselves as the paragons of good. So rather than risking the ambiguities of nuance, our government spin-doctors new material, upgrading the “war on terror” to a “crusade...
...introductory speech at a conference entitled, “The Humanities and Moral Authority” this past weekend, Marjorie Garber, Kenan Professor of English Literature, spoke about the relationship between language and war, arguing that the polemical nature of language??its ability to contest meaning and incite debate—makes it central to understanding war. If the stated purpose of war in Iraq is to bring democracy into the region, and the purpose of democracies is to create societies in which free speech and artistic expression can flourish, then it is with no small amount...