language Archives - Tampa Review https://tampareview.org/tag/language/ Celebrating 60 Years of Literary Publishing Thu, 26 Jul 2012 05:00:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.7 232589785 English is essentially… https://tampareview.org/english-is-essentially/ https://tampareview.org/english-is-essentially/#respond Thu, 26 Jul 2012 05:00:44 +0000 http://www.tampareviewonline.org/?p=946 A bit of humor for your week: John Cowan has built a list of 1,000+ “Essentialist Explanations” on various languages. If you’re a language buff it’s worth checking out. Here are a few to get you started. English is essentially a language that uses vowels no other language would accept. -Luís Henrique English is essentially ... [Read more...]

The post English is essentially… appeared first on Tampa Review.

]]> A bit of humor for your week: John Cowan has built a list of 1,000+ “Essentialist Explanations” on various languages. If you’re a language buff it’s worth checking out. Here are a few to get you started.

English is essentially a language that uses vowels no other language would accept.

-Luís Henrique

English is essentially bad Dutch with outrageously pronounced French and Latin vocabulary.

-Eugene Holman

English is what you get from Normans trying to pick up Saxon girls.

-Bryan Maloney

(via Kottke)

The post English is essentially… appeared first on Tampa Review.

]]> https://tampareview.org/english-is-essentially/feed/ 0 946 Shakespeare in the Original Language https://tampareview.org/shakespeare-in-the-original-language/ https://tampareview.org/shakespeare-in-the-original-language/#respond Thu, 05 Jul 2012 11:00:35 +0000 http://www.tampareviewonline.org/?p=694 Shakespeareophiles have no doubt noticed couplets not rhyming in an occasional sonnet or soliloquy in a way that the context suggests they should. I know reading John Donne and Shakespeare myself I have encountered more than a fair share of lines that simply don’t rhyme — and it ruins an otherwise impressive structure — so ... [Read more...]

The post Shakespeare in the Original Language appeared first on Tampa Review.

]]> Shakespeareophiles have no doubt noticed couplets not rhyming in an occasional sonnet or soliloquy in a way that the context suggests they should. I know reading John Donne and Shakespeare myself I have encountered more than a fair share of lines that simply don’t rhyme — and it ruins an otherwise impressive structure — so I assume the pronunciation is different.

Well I stumbled upon this video which, for me, was the first I had ever heard Shakespeare in the original pronunciation. Enjoy:

Every second after 2:53 just magnifies William Shakespeare’s brilliance at a rate of about 1.5 Genius Points per second. Realizing how many tricks and puns Bill threw into his work can almost be a daunting, intimidating discovery.

The post Shakespeare in the Original Language appeared first on Tampa Review.

]]> https://tampareview.org/shakespeare-in-the-original-language/feed/ 0 694