Yes, I finally got around to putting a picture of a pirate queen on my blog. It was only a matter of time. Both the pictures on here right now are by my favorite illustrator, Trina Schart Hyman. She's best known for her Caldecott-winning book St. George and the Dragon. You can find out pretty much all that she has illustrated on this nifty little list.
Right then, hyphens. Dr. Hesselink says they are going out. Now I realize that the English language and its punctuation is growing and changing, but still, can we not protest? Anyway, I think the hyphen in "pre-eminent" really needs to be there. I don't care if we're behind the times.
I keep being captured by words lately and having to go look them up in any available dictionary. We learned the word for "wrong" (or a word for "wrong" or something, that's not the point) in French the other day. It's "tort," and it just started me thinking about words like "extort" and "contort" and "torture" and the meaning of "tort" that has to do with twisting and bending and that made me think of C. S. Lewis's Ransom books and the whole idea of evil being "bent." I don't know if there's really any connection, but it's fun to think about.
Posted by linnea at January 12, 2004 11:10 PMLinnea, words are so vastly important. Apples of gold in baskets of silver. I love it that you know this too.
But you know, the time I look back on that I realized the most the God was utterly more real than I, was a time when I was praying and he took my words away and suddenly I was aware of him speaking to me without words or sound, and I spoke back with wordless thought. Weirdest thing ever. Maybe that memory makes words more precious to me, I don't know.
At any rate, they do communicate more than we usually notice. You can dig to China before you get to the bottom of a word.
Posted by: tuggy at January 12, 2004 11:54 PMI support the evolution of language, but I also support hyphens. They make word-combinations possible, which is great. Say no to hyphen-loss!
Posted by: KornSt@r at January 13, 2004 9:43 AMWow! I love that connection between "tort" and the idea of "Bent Ones" in the Space Trilogy! We don't see the connection authors have until some idea like this hits us. What a great revelation. Keep up your word study! Interesante!
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Posted by: anti aging at October 5, 2005 4:10 PMTrina Schart Hyman is my favorite illustrator too! I hoped she would illustrate one of my stories someday, but she died recently. Her work is inspiring and fantastical. I hope she is still drawing in heaven.
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