Hmmmm.... So my Year 11s sat their GCSE English Language examination today: Paper One, Imaginative Writing. I wouldn't normally comment on something like this but I am irked. The text given was a translation of Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. A translation. Of a Russian text. In an English Language exam. I am concerned. The students have… Continue reading Crime and Punishment
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Etymologicon and The Elements of Eloquence, Mark Forsyth
These are not worth separate blog posts: same basic book written in the same basic style about the same basic themes. Which sounds terribly dismissive but shouldn't: as a self-confessed language geek who's alert to the absurdity and beauty of our mongrel mother tongue, these books were a delightful treat.and a little like talking to… Continue reading Etymologicon and The Elements of Eloquence, Mark Forsyth
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