February 2026 Archives
How far back in time can you understand English?
A travel blog of a trip to the English village of Wulfleet becomes a linguistic time machine, illustrating changes in the alphabet, spelling, and vocabulary from AD 2000 back to AD 1000, before the Norman Conquest.
"But as his post goes on, his language gets older. A hundred years older with each jump. The spelling changes. The grammar changes. Words you know are replaced by unfamiliar words, and his attitude gets older too, as the blogger's voice is replaced by that of a Georgian diarist, an Elizabethan pamphleteer, a medieval chronicler. By the middle of his post, he's writing in what might as well be a foreign language. But it's not a foreign language. It's all English."
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A Christian philosopher's path to truth | WORLD
Douglas Groothuis writes: "Of the myriad books that have shaped my worldview, these four live in me. I have read them repeatedly and have taught them to university students over many years." The God Who Is There, by Francis Schaeffer; Pensées, by Blaise Pascal; The Abolition of Man, by C. S. Lewis; Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, by Neil Postman.
Sometimes I like to refresh my memory about the classes I took in college and the professors who taught me.
