6.10
“Steve Jobs’s Appearance Grabs Notice, Not Just the IPhone” (@ WSJ via DF)
I was wondering how long it was going to take until someone mentioned this.
6.9
Has Ellen Lee, in the process of writing, in the San Francisco Chronicle, about today’s expected iPhone announcement, invented a new word?
12.27
France Bids Adieu to ‘E-Mail’ @Wired
Yes, the French take the preservation of their language verrry seriously.
Makes me think of the linguistic hypothesis of Edward Sapir & Benjamin Whorf. Roughly (if I am getting this right): language directly corresponds to cognition i.e. the language we speak is connected to the way we think. I believe, by and large, that the French would agree. I also think that we Americans would disagree. That’s why, when the majority of Americans hear about something like this there is a lot of eye rolling. Of course we have less at stake, culturally, than they do. American culture – and therefore language – is everywhere.
