As our Summer submissions draw to a close, here’s a little linguistic diversion from our sister publication, The Word Emporium.
A clock ticks. Rain begins against the window. A glass meets another in celebration.
The sounds are the same everywhere. Language teaches us to hear them differently.
Wales Haiku Journal
The world makes the same noises everywhere.
Language teaches us to hear them differently.
Today at the Word Emporium:
When a Sound Crosses a Border
A clock. A frog. A sneeze. Ten everyday sounds, heard through different languages.
#words #language #vocabulary
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The world makes the same noises everywhere. Language teaches us to hear them differently.
