Mercury

DO
Mercury
Marshall McLuhan

Rainbow

Mess

Chac Mol

Redwood

Luke 13:11

"And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up herself." 

An American soldier in Honduras. Drug agents there are using military-style counterinsurgency efforts against drug trafficking.(NYT)

Stout Grove, Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park, California.

© Sean Bagshaw

Chess: "DO" "Mercury" Rainbow" "Marshall McLuhan" "Gutter" "Mess" "Chac Mol" "Redwood"

 "Merchandizing was a at a full stop, for very few ships ventured to come up the river, and none at all went out" (Daniel Defoe)

Marshall McLuhan: The Medium and the Messenger : A Biography

 

Consider,for example,the(synchronic)fact that English, when compared with other languages,has some rather infrequent or unusual characteristics.Thus, in the area of vocabulary, English has an exceptionally high number of words borrowed from other languages(French, theScandinavian languages,American Indian  languages,Italian, the languages of northern India and so on); in syntaxcommonconstruction is the use ofdo in forming questions (e.g.Do you likecheese?), a type of construction not often found in other languages;in morphology English has relatively few inflexions, at least comparedwith the majority of other European languages; in phonology thenumber of diphthongs as against the number of vowels in EnglishEnglish is notably high. In other words, synchronically, English can beseen to be in some respects rather unusual. But in order to understandsuch facts we need to look at the history of the language; it is often onlythere that an explanation can be found. And that is what this workattempts to do.