Podcasting wine
I have discovered podcasts. For some time, I’ve heard podcasts are an interesting replacement of radio or other media, but somehow, I haven’t been interested. But recently I realised that instead of half-listening to music when I drive or walking mindlessly with my dog, I could actually listen to something. And the something I decided on was podcasts on wine. Indeed, after some searchers, quite a lot appeared. In this post, I want to write about my experience as a podcast listener. Continue reading “Podcasting wine”
Linguistics of pomposity
Meg Maker wrote “We need to talk about wine talk” (link here) an introduction to a panel on the language of wine. She writes that the ‘language of wine needs a reboot’. In this post I want to respond by saying two things. First, largely, the article is not about the language of wine. Second, if it were, Meg Maker’s writing would be part of the problem. Continue reading “Linguistics of pomposity”
What matters and what doesn’t
One of the daily features of my Twitter timeline are tweets telling people how to speak. I regularly object to such policing. Not only, in my view, is it pointless, but, more importantly, it is only about the tweeter exercising (and consolidating) their power to tell people what to do. I recently wrote about (link here) the use of ‘die’ in palliative care, today I want to go back to the ‘c-phrase’. Here is another post about language policing. Continue reading “What matters and what doesn’t”
Fuzziness of a pear
I recently had a bottle of excellent Sancerre which was described by a few experts as a precise wine. As much as I like reading about wine, the word ‘precise’ in reference to plonk has escaped me. So, I decided to investigate and have a little more fun with wine linguistics. Continue reading “Fuzziness of a pear”