MPJ

Languages always change when we change. Evolutionary speaking and over a long period of time. Especially when we mix with others or change environments and move to different places. English is a perfect example—perhaps it is the only language spoken with that many variations created from country to country, all over the world, from New Zealand throughout India toward Canada and even in those places on Earth where it is not language number one. Believe it or not, there are thousands of spoken languages throughout our planet today, and with people migrating over eons, mixing multiple languages into new ones is well recorded in our history. New languages created in that fashion are well known as creoles, most of them connected to the recent colonialism when two cultures or more collided for a longer period of time. Perhaps the most known of them all (and spoken by most of their population) are Haitian, Jamaican, and Hawaiian creoles—a mixture of French (Haiti) and English (Jamaica and H...

The most memorable part of my life is, of course, childhood, especially the part from the point when I learned to read until the middle teen years - for me, it was the period of life when the empty bucket in my head rapidly started to fill itself with every piece of information it stumbled upon everywhere possible. When I look at that period from today's point of view, what comes to mind first is that it was a technology-free time. The state-of-the-art technology of the time was a color TV set with only two programs, with broadcasting ending around 9pm. Radio stations were at the peak of their popularity with small handheld AM receivers, and only a few owned an FM receiver with crystal-clear sound - that is, if you don't move quickly to avoid noise. The communication device of the time was a heavy pulse telephone set that required a hard table with a special place in the house. But I don't connect my childhood with the technology gadgets of the time. Not at all; what...