Tag: language

• The Mistaken Identity

  Communication is a fascinating thing. It enables descriptions of the world in different sounds, different gestures, different expressions. A shrug of indifference in one culture is a greeting in another. A nod can convey a myriad of intentions -context is everything. Only the smile seems a common currency. As a gynaecologist, I am ruled by…

  gozzter

  September 3, 2015

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  baby, Cantonese, communication, culture, Gynaecology, language, pregnancy, pronunciation, referring doctor, Rosetta stone, smiles, translator, United Nations

• The Crown Jewel

    Ahh, those were the days! The days when naivete reigned. The once-upon-a-times when my practice was young and everyone around me seemed old. They spoke a language I had not anticipated in my training; they seem to have subscribed to different dictionaries, or the words were smudged so they did their best with what…

  gozzter

  October 8, 2014

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  belly button, belly dance, crown jewels, danse du ventre, endometriosis, incision, language, laparoscopy, lower quadrant pain, medical practice, monthlies, navel, Pain, parts, pelvic pain, vocabulary

• The Linguistic Pregnancy

  What is pregnancy? What’s in a name, for that matter..? Is it true that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, or is there something in the name itself that alters and affects that to which it refers? Neo-Whorfianism, in other words… For example, the Chinese word for what we in English…

  gozzter

  June 26, 2014

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  Benjamin Whorf, culture, language, language theory, linguistic, linguists, meaning, name, Neo Whorfianism, pregnancy, semantic drift, transliterations, Whorfianism, words