The Power Of Landspeak
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--DailyGood.org
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Jul 3, 2015

 

Under pressure, Oxford University Press revealed a list of the entries it no longer felt relevant to a modern-day childhood, including acorn, bluebell, buttercup, dandelion, ivy, lark, and mistletoe. The outdoor and the natural are displaced by the indoor and the virtual -- a small but significant symptom of the simulated life we increasingly live. And what is lost is the power that certain terms possess to enchant our relations with nature and place. [Full Story]

 

Posted by DailyGood.org on Jul 3, 2015