The "commencement" of our lives
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The U.S. is rare in that, on the federal level, we don’t have a national language. While English is the de facto national language and several states have language laws on the books, the federal government isn’t legally bound to conduct official business in English.
There’s a weird myth in my family about names. There’s this idea that whatever you name your child imbues the child with the elements of that name; names become important in a way that’s more than just what you’re called.
We’re all lucky to live in our nation’s capital of rhetoric. A rhetorical capital, if you will.
Cloud.
You say you want a revolution.
Steve Job’s sister recently revealed his final words to be “Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow.”
I’ve talked about language and culture being linked before in this column. Language is how we think and controls everything we can say. Our English phrase “lost in translation” says it all: certain things are going to be left behind when you’re switching from one language to another. The things lost are more than just idioms and plays on words; bits of culture are left behind as well.
A brief disclaimer upfront: most of my experience with languages outside of English are Romance languages. Latin, Spanish, a little Italian. I know enough about German to know about the neuter form, enough French to order a crepe.
Remember truthiness?
Washington is said to be filled with movers and shakers, but I don’t think any of us were prepared for this start of fall semester.