Lingua franca

I start French classes again tonight as part of my on-again/off-again attempt to jam something new in my brain in time for my April trip to Paris. It's a refresher course, French 1...something with which to Spackle the cracks in my Francophile sand castle. My main strategy is to work on pronunciation. My cousin Tommy once suggested Berltiz tapes, but my Walkman can't sit there, eyeing my lip twists and listening to tongue rolls for errors and lingual gaffes.

Nor would I want it to.

Today's word: Symbol

From One Word.

Symbols are languages not invented yet, where words fail and numbers go dumb. Symbols are free and brave and can bring down countries. They are the rebels of language and culture. Prince was a symbol.