Six Tuscan Poets, by Giorgio Vasari, 1544.

Six Tuscan Poets, by Giorgio Vasari, 1544. Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota.

Communication

Volume V, Number 2 | spring 2012

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Word Order

Lewis H. Lapham

Tape Delay

Madeline Miller

In the Panthéon

Philipp Blom

Word for Word

Ben Zimmer

Body Language

Arika Okrent

Native Tongues

Simon Winchester

Map

Living Languages

Miscellany

Papal overindulgence.

What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate.

“Theory and Practice of Editing New Yorker Articles.”

The only thing in life worse than being talked about.

Haircuts and Latin lessons.

Robert E. Lee, man of letters.

Sign language at the Stork Club.

Math and the music of the spheres.

A publishing mistake of biblical proportions.

Revolutionary grammar.

Mary, Queen of Scots’ spy game.

Telegraphic code.

Marshall McLuhan on Shakespeare and television.

Henry James and Ernest Hemingway on “the debasement of words by war.”

Charlemagne promotes literacy.

Russell and Wittgenstein’s irreconcilable “value judgments.”

Voices In Time

No Sex in the Prison Library

c. 1965 | San Quentin, CA

Close Reading

1871 | Oxford

Nothing to Say

1854 | Concord

Turn On, Tune In

1915 | Congers, NY

Dating Manual

c. 1185 | Troyes

Instant Messaging

c. 1190 BC | Argos

Trains of Thought

1651 | London

Last Stand

2008 | New York City

What White Folks Call Verbal Skills

c. 1955 | Baton Rouge

New Media

1846 | Paris

Dissenting Opinion

1798 | Richmond

Horsepower

c. 1860 | United States

Drum Circle

1841 | Equatorial Guinea

On the Contrary

1983 | New York City

The High-Raised Literary Tone

1820 | London

Broken English

1855 | Portugal

Borrowing a Simile

1885 | Camden, NJ

To Keep the Word Alive

1985 | Paris

In the Names of Progress

1896 | Shanghai

Seen But Not Heard

1922 | New York City

Spreading the Word

1312 | Vienne

Going Viral

1518 | Wittenberg

Media Saturation

1992 | Washington, DC

Tone of Voice

c. 365 BC | Athens

Synesthesia

1751 | Paris

What Is Love?

c. 1887 | Tuscumbia, AL

Music Is the Food of Soul

1818 | Dresden

Spring Cleaning

213 BC | Qin

Invention of Letters

1826 | Philadelphia

Breaking the Bad News

1961 | Washington, DC

Proofreading

1789 | Philadelphia

Talking Cure

1966 | Cambridge, MA

Telling a True War Story

c. 1969 | Vietnam

The Imperial Faculty

1821 | Pisa

City Talk

1744 | New York

To the Barricades

2011 | Cairo

Falling Off the Donkey

c. 350 | Syria

Redefined

1906 | Washington, DC

One World, One Language

c. 2800 BC | Uruk

In Favor of the Antescript

c. 1943 | Dublin

Talking Book

c. 1725 | Atlantic Ocean

Base Flattery

c. 1694 | Versailles

Charts and Graphs

How the Other Half Talks

The Medium and the Message

Reform Movements

Decoded

Marginalized

On the Record

Invented Languages

Font of History

Treasured Up

Sticks and Stones

Contributors

Conversations

Saint Benedict & Maurice Maeterlinck

Horace & Petrarch

Francis Bacon & Joan Didion

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