Tag: linguistics

  • For

    For

    I kept it short. The title I mean. It is the shortest title I’ve had; it does not get much shorter than this. I also kept it small. After several issues dealing with an entire book of the Bible, this one is about a single word, and a short one at that: the conjunction for.…

  • How to Boggle Your Mind: The Miracle of Language

    How to Boggle Your Mind: The Miracle of Language

    Language is mind-bogglingly complex – as illustrated, in a small way, by the strange word “mind-bogglingly”! The Bible is written in human language. If we care about interpreting the Bible, it pays off to think about how language works. This month, therefore, I made an excursion into linguistics, the science that studies language. What I…