Sight-Seeing: Language is hard – are you sure they mean what you think they mean?
KAREN SWALLOW PRIOR, in an article first published on Religion News Service, says caring for each other includes the humility of accepting that we understand each other and our words only in part…
Essay: Kris Kringles and yuletide jingles – unboxing the wonders of Christmas lingo
In an article first published on The Conversation, Australian language experts KATE BURRIDGE and HOWARD MANNS look at some of the odder Christmas-related words and phrases…
Essay: Christians should change how they talk about people with a criminal record
In an article first published on Religion News Service, JAMES ACKERMAN, president of Prison Fellowship in the US, writes about why words matter when describing people in reference to the prison system…
Watch your language: tasty words “luring” people to healthier foods
Thomson Reuters Foundation Rich and zesty or low fat and vegan? Clever marketing with mouth-watering words can boost sales of plant-based dishes by more than 70 per cent, experts said last week, amid a drive to cut meat intake to improve human and planetary health. Describing sausages as ‘Cumberland-spiced’ rather than ‘meat-free’ and promoting a […]
GENESIS AND INFORMATION
If you haven’t read Genesis, you are missing out on a huge chunk of our cultural foundation. Why not take a look? God created the universe with words – information, coded data, says Paul Clark. PICTURE: Markus Spiske/Unsplash. One of the profound things the book of Genesis tells us, against all other accounts, is that God […]