I have to admit numinousness is a term I have come across only recently. It should be used in a religious context, but it has been taken over by sci-fi and fantasy. As far as I can see that community – sorry, maybe those communities? – don’t have any very clear idea on what it [...]
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Numinousness has its place.
Posted in language, tagged pornography on September 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Good pattern instructions
Posted in knitting, language on December 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We’ve all been there: what exactly DO those instructions mean? A little carelessness in language goes a long way to making life difficult for the knitter.
Take my latest problem. I’m knitting Liesl and it is, despite the absence of schematics, a well written pattern. BUT….
It is knitted from the top down, a cardigan in one [...]
Rugby player admits difficulty with sex
Posted in humour, language, sport, tagged humour, language, sport on August 6, 2008 | 2 Comments »
My attention was caught watching the news the other day when a rugby player said to an interviewer that ‘it’s hard to come from behind’. My first thought was ‘Why would he find that hard?’
Evidently the physical inadequacies of rugby players are not necessarily limited to their missing necks. I could start feeling sorry [...]
