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Person to Person - words with a human touch

Godfrey Howard
June 5 1999

So much of our lives hangs on how we communicate person to person. This talk embraces the most recent research into how language affects people, how writers get through to their readers, and how words can bridge the void between one person and another. It promises to be a startling, perceptive, innovative, funny and immensely useful look at how we communicate with each other on the brink of the 21st century. The singer, Mara Walsh, will animate the talk by reading examples.

Godfrey Howard read Linguistics at Oxford under C.T. Onions (the last surviving editor of the original Oxford English Dictionary), C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. His books, The Good English Guide (acclaimed as the most human of all dictionaries of English usage) and The Macmillan Good English Handbook, have become standard works on the use of English, and the BBC has recorded his programme, The State of the Language.

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