Geoffrey Fox

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Resolutions, past and present

2025.01.01 - Tags: , , , , ,

Theodor Adorno

For 2024, I posted four New Year’s resolutions as my alter ego The Man Who Can :    1, a new novel, this time set in Germany; 2, acquiring fluency in German; 3,  more book reviews, and 4, getting better on guitar. I‘m part way there, on all four goals – except maybe no. 4, … read more »

The color of language

2021.04.08 - Tags:

[An old review, re-posted because some of us were talking again about languages.] Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages by Guy Deutscher My rating: 3 of 5 stars This digressive examination of whether and, if so, how a speaker’s language structures his/her thoughts contains two interesting arguments bundled with … read more »