Social Network Language School

A cicada in the wild olive tree
outside our door pulses
like a fire alarm drilling kids in school.
Only this time
the fire is real: the sun
is burning us alive.

—Randy Blasing, from “Hymn to the Sun” http://ow.ly/euAts
Photography Credit Danny Lyon

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/12/magazine/12letters-t-YOUAREWHATYO_LETTERS.html?ref=magazine

Letters: You Are What You Speak “It would be interesting to know to what extent cultural and societal views and attitudes are shaped by language.”

http://www.omniglot.com/language/colours/index.php

Colour words in many languages The words for different colours/colors in many different languages.