Irregular ranting by an Irrelevant thinker

“What does a word mean? And a life? in the end, it seems to me, the same thing. Just as a word can have many dimensions, many nuances, great complexity, so, too, can a person, a life. Language is the mirror, the principal metaphor. Because ultimately the meaning of a word, like that of a person is boundless, ineffable.” – Jhumpa Lahiri In Other Words An award winning novelist of English language wants to travel the uncharted sea of mastering a foreign language.  Jhumpa Lahiri  in her latest (and Non-fiction debut) shares her experiences in learning Italian. With a series of metaphors this creator of The Interpreter of Maladies describes how learning Italian has been her long standing wish come true. In these 203 pages, she tells us the story of her metamorphosis from an  American Born Bengali Indian  to an Established Italian Author. She describes in detail how the seed of the desire to learn Italian was sowed, and how many struggles she had to go thr...

The Chaos The Chaos  by  Gerard Nolst Trenité This is a classic English poem containing about 800 of the worst irregularities in English spelling and pronunciation. If you can successfully pronounce the entire thing without error, you're officially a better English speaker than 90% of the world. But don't feel bad if you can't. It's quite the challenge. Dearest creature in creation, Study English pronunciation. I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse. I will keep you, Suzy, busy, Make your head with heat grow dizzy. Tear in eye, your dress will tear. So shall I! Oh hear my prayer. Just compare heart, beard, and heard, Dies and diet, lord and word, Sword and sward, retain and Britain. (Mind the latter, how it's written.) Now I surely will not plague you With such words as plaque and ague. But be careful how you speak: Say break and steak, but bleak and streak; Cloven, oven, how and low, Script, receipt, show, poem...