A brief idea about language in RPGs and how it does or doesn't work differently compared to IRL assumptions. So we've all had the id...

 How would Imperial Gothic actually sound if we could listen to it? SLOWDOWN IN RATE OF CHANGE Of course this will only be even slightly pos...

 From "African Folktales - selected and retold by Roger D Abrahams"; Unfortunately, this quality of immediacy in an African story,...

'Natural Language' is a term I yanked from programmers. Reasonably self-explanatory, it means getting a programme to the point where...

(This showed up on my Goodreads page first, so if you read that then you have already read this.) The dusty hard-drive of oral culture...

This is all from the Oxford DIctionary of Nursery Rhymes; [Line breaks added by my and Umlauts and other things I can't easily repoduc...

This book is too good, too dense and too short to easily review. It's hard to summarise something that is already a very able summar...