In Brazil, every student of English as a second language hears the phrase “The book is on the table” at some point during their studies. The sentence has been so overly used during English classes, especially when teaching prepositions, that it has become a nation-wide joke. The belief is that if one knows how to say “The book is on the table,” then one knows how to speak … [Read more...] about The Book Is on the Table: What Book?
Archives for September 2013
Chasing the Unicorn: We’ll Go To Very Distant Lands
Every week, Lilian Min muses on reality + sci-fi/fantasy fiction narrative and fantastical world building in her column "Chasing the Unicorn." Recently in class, we were discussing an unusual phenomena: the explosion of tweets from Japan during a television screening of animation maestro Hayao Miyazaki's "Castle in the Sky." To which one person in my class actually voiced … [Read more...] about Chasing the Unicorn: We’ll Go To Very Distant Lands