#epgdm — Public Fediverse posts

Here is a screenshot of _English Through Pictures_ p207 that mentions an ancient Chinese poem or thinking about our approach to time.
This one page with a simple drawing and using a limited number of English words offers the same sort of thought as a few dense paragraphs in William Empson's _Seven Types of Ambiguity_.
#TaoChien #EP3 #EPGDM #EnglishThroughPicturesBook3
#EnglishThroughPictures3
#EP3p207 #WilliamEmpson #TypesOfAmbiguity #SevenTypesOfAmbiguity

Lewis Mumford's _Technics and Civilization_ on the camera's influence brought this to mind:
> If #Instagram showed us what a world without art looks like, #TikTok shows us what a world without shame looks like. The old virtues of restraint — prudence, discretion, tact — are gone. There is only one virtue: to be seen.

https://www.roughtype.com/?paged=3

#NicolasCarr #CarrOnTikTok #TikTok #TechnicsAndCivilization #LewisMumford #MumfordOnTheCamera #SelfExposure
#GDM #EP3 #EP2 #EPGDM #IARichardsOnMedia

> [Ben Franklin's] conclusion.. [was that a powerful speaker could be heard] from Market Street to a particular part of Front Street in Philadelphia, and by 30,000 people.
> Putting Franklin’s experiment aside, we may say that #EnlightenmentPhilosophes were not unaware of the connections between political life and communication.

With 1050 English words #EP3 lets us ease into the conversation. #EP3 #GDM #EPGDM
#BuildingABridgeToTheEighteenthCentury
#BenFranklin #Aristotle on #HumanVoiceLimits

NEW CORN
> Swiftly the years, beyond recall.
> Solemn the stillness of this fair morning.
- https://www.gutenberg.org/files/42290/42290-h/42290-h.htm

On p207 of English Through Picture book three the simplified version is
> Quickly the years fly past forever
> Here forever is this spring morning

#EP3 #EPGDM #WilliamEmpson #ArthurWaley #TaoChien #Poetry #Chinese #Trasnlastion #EP3p207

“Large numbers of people will learn English as a foreign language in the 21st century, and they will need teachers, dictionaries and grammar books. But will they continue to look towards the native speaker for authoritative norms of usage?”
- https://www.elgazette.com/david-graddol-the-man-who-saw-the-future-of-english/

#EFL #DavidGraddol #EnglishNext #NativeSpeakers #EPGDM #OgdensBasicEnglish #IaR #IaRichards #FutureOfEnglish