With half of the world’s languages expected to vanish by the end of the century, the race is on to document them. We meet those working to save the world’s endangered tongues, treasure troves of cultural diversity that capture what it means to be humanThe post The last word: protecting our vanishing languages appeared first on Positive News.
As our latest cover feature explores, some 7,000 languages are spoken around the world. In celebration of this rich diversity, we’ve collected 10 of our favourite inspiring wordsThe post 10 inspiring words you may never have heard appeared first on Positive News.
Issue 87 celebrates the power of words by reporting on efforts to preserve the world’s endangered languagesThe post #OurWorldIsBeautiful: Positive News celebrates languages appeared first on Positive News.
Editor-in-chief Seán Dagan Wood introduces issue 87 of Positive NewsThe post Our wor(l)d is beautiful appeared first on Positive News.
Sixty days. A year. Five years. A week. A day. An hour. Right now.
That’s the curse of addiction, those needles, inhalants, the entire barbarity of cheap booze shilled by the chosen ones, the money changers, all amortized and bundled debts in trans-capital, sold next to the playground, the trees cut down for billboards pronouncing sexual prowess and football hero-dom with the flick of the Mike’s Hard Cider or a fucking Bud.
Hollyweird politics, a lot of lawsuits and nuclear concerts + this day in history w/"Controversy" and our song of the day by The Faint on your Morning Monarchy for September 2, 2016.
Stephen Colbert challenges Michelle Dockery, Hugh Bonneville, and Allen Leech to read a Downton Abbey scene in American accents. Stephen's own idea about American accents could use some touching up, it seems."Nationally, most Americans don’t really know that much about the people who live in [Colorado, Wyoming, or Nebraska], which means we also haven’t constructed elaborate and unreliable legends about the ways people in those states speak. And because the way we see people is the primary factor in the way we hear them speak, if we don’t know much about a population?
I can’t believe it, but then I can believe it, or I must believe it. These are compliant times, where people in the US workforce are kowtowed and then for years these multiple generations in the workforce have thrown in the towel and been so bullied by the Politically Crap Corrective Collective Group-Think that they are not even human — they can’t even rage against the injustice befalling them. I have both taught and worked alongside people who just believe deep down there’s no sense in fighting the powers that be, and that’s it, too bad, sure, but what can we do about it?
Words matter, my friends. And if you are running to be president, or you are president of the United States, words can have tremendous consequences.
— Hillary Clinton, August 10, 2016
This is the first half of a full talk which can be obtained by subscribing to JaysAnalysis at the PayPal link for 4.95 per month or 60.00 per year. Dr. Matthew Raphael Johnson joins me to cover material you won’t hear touched anywhere else. A scholar of philosophy as well as a priest, Hegel and Russian thought, Dr.
