6th Podcast -

<p>This is part 2 of the interview with my dear old pal Norman Mounter. After speaking about his interests in Part 1 he goes on to talk about his soon to be released novel 'Broken Oaths.'</p> <p>In Jessica Gems once again from the interview she has taken out some of the phrases and language which was naturally used and has formed some very testing language questions for yours truly.</p> <p>Transcription of Interview:</p> <p>Speaker 1 (00:00):<br /> What about language? Because I know you've got a real interest in language as well.<br /> Speaker 2 (00:04):<br /> Yeah. I think that stems from much later on. I mean, when I was at school, I loved English. I loved<br /> creative writing. I loved reading English, but we were never really taught what I would call the discipline<br /> of grammar of rhetoric, all of those kinds of old school subjects. So it was all grammar school subjects<br /> where you'd have to learn about proper use of grammar. And that's something that I've, I've had to pick<br /> up on my own, but actually it's a fascinating area because you really start to learn the power of how you<br /> can use English to be basically most effective in what you want to say. And it's not, it's often the case<br /> that you don't need. A lot of words, you just need the right choice of word in an appropriate style that<br /> obviously suits you and also is easy to read. And grammar gives you that grammar has many other<br /> elements to it apart from spelling and punctuation things.<br /> Speaker 2 (01:03):<br /> And one of the things really interests me is the, is the word history. So understanding where a word has<br /> come from, whether it be, uh, particularly in English, whether it be through the Latin, from the Romans<br /> or the Anglo-Saxon, or, you know, even the kind of Celtic derivation, but that's always been fascinating<br /> to me. And I think that partly comes from my passion for Tolkien's Lord of the rings. Well, Tolkien's<br /> legendarium is very much based on, on a mythology that has strong links