AFP: Baby talk... without words 13 May

Winner of the Social/Environment Award. We live in a world where technology has given us the tools to communicate but not the ability. Without Words is a very personal film about two close friends who have to pay a very high price for our failure as a society to connect.

Stogie Kenyatta lets us know of his childish dialogue with his mother. (1: 36)

Four days after the birth of her son 18year old Nadine waits for her discharge from hospital. But an odd atmosphere is in the pediatrics ward that day. Nadine notices too late that her baby vanished without a trace...

Lizette Mizzelle talks about her children, including her baby she named The Tick. (01: 50)

George Perez talks about his hood rat baby mamma.(1: 58)

Puzzles may have been around for hundreds of years but in the Czech republic these games have become the latest craze. From the beginning, people have played with language both for entertainment and to improve communications. Once written language developed, it was inevitable that humans would begin playing word games. Some of the earliest evidence of crossword-like word play dates from the first century A.D.

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Bryan Erwin talks about a small unplanned accident.

A clairient is someone who invents strange words.