#iarichards — Public Fediverse posts

> They wandered up and down and to and fro. They went everywhere but out of the wood and were found in the morning (there was a morning!) under a heap of leaves. The story says that pitying birds buried them so. This seems a pretty fancy. I find it more likely that they collected leaves themselves and perished through unregulated interest in the variety of foliation...
#BabesInTheWood #CultOfInformation #UnRegulatedInterest #FactsAndRelevance #IARichards

From 1932, C.K. Ogden's little book _Opposition: A Linguistic and Psychological Analysis_ with an introduction by I.A. Richards. I keep thinking I should give the diagrams some thought and attention. It will be good to work toward an understanding of the diagrams and notation on page 16 of the book.

#CKOgden #OgdensOpposition #IARichards #IaR #DiagramOfOpposition

'The rectifying of the mind is realized when the thoughts are made sincere.' And the thoughts are sincere, when no self-deception is allowed, and we move without effort to what is right and wrong, 'as we love what is beautiful, and as we dislike a bad smell'

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/3100/pg3100-images.html

#Sincerity #BadSmellSincerity #JamesLegge #Confucius #TheGreatLearning from #IARichards #PracticalCriticism p272 came to mind with #IgnazSemmelweis battling cadaver smells on #DoctorsHands

Bill Templer keeps me focussed on simplicity:

.> This is a paper about the need for a fundamental rethink of what we are doing. Especially for the many of us teaching English as an international language (EIL) to non-elite students on the myriad peripheries. It argues for flexibly re-exploring in depth the simplified auxiliary language BASIC developed by C.K. Ogden, I.A. Richards and their associates, along with Richard's amplified version Every Man's English, attuned to the needs of the mass teaching and learning of EIL today.

> Richards divided the class into three groups. Each group was asked to write a paragraph describing language. However, Richards provided each group with its first sentence.

Group A had to begin with “Language is like a tree”;
Group B with
“Language is like a river”;
Group C with
“Language is like a building.”...

Our discussion centered on how metaphors control what we say, and to what extent what we say controls what we see.
#NeilPostman #Technopoly with #IaRichards on #MetaphorControl

“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