Category: Language

Language is based in threes. Sender, message, receiver. Subject verb object. A language involves a semantic system, a phonological system, and a syntactic system. Phonetics study the sounds of languages from three basic points of view.

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third person point of view

Point of view is the perspective from which a story is told. We may choose to tell our story in

    * first person, using "I" or "we";
    * third person ("he," "she," "it"), which can be limited or omniscient; or
    * second person, "you," the least common point of view.

As a writer, you must think strategically to choose the point of view that will allow you to most effectively develop your characters and tell your story.

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ECONOMIC THEORIES OF LANGUAGE

NEW CANADIAN PERSPECTIVES

Economic Approaches to
Language and Bilingualism

Richard G. Harris
Department of Economics
Simon Fraser University

Excert from http://www.canadianheritage.gc.ca/offlangoff/perspectives/english/economic/

3.   ECONOMIC THEORIES OF LANGUAGE
3.1 Language as a Human Capital
3.2 Languages and Network Externalities
3.3 Migration and Language Dynamics

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Triple entendre

A triple entendre is a rare occurrence in language where a phrase can be understood in any of three ways.

A famous t-shirt at MIT, when women first were accepted stated: "women multiply at MIT." This could mean that women literally multiply numbers, that more and more women are coming to MIT (and the number of women is multiplying), or that women are having children at MIT.