So, Japanese Aesthetics is drawing to a close (I’m splashing tears on the keyboard as I type), so I thought, what better than to start a brand new series. Enter: Guest_bloggers. Before you continue with this post, check out more details about what to expect here; after that, make sure you hit that ‘Back’ button [...]
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: my introduction to Japanese came from a desire to learn a language comprised of symbols. Nothing more, nothing less. Before stumbling across Japanese, having always been the avid student of romance languages, I had thought that alphabets were ace and symbols were stupid. How could a [...]
Language is fascinating. It’s organic, living, breathing, tangled, misinterpreted, overused, misrepresented, joyous and troublesome. Looking back into history, it seems that most languages have sprawled out from their epicentres, and, wherever people have gone, they have followed, like ivy left to grow of its own accord, assimilating and overtaking everything in their wake. Languages are [...]