Archive for Language
Back in May, I posted about Hamilton, the new hip-hop Broadway musical about Alexander Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda. Ever since...
On Facebook recently, Jackie asked a question: Jackie: Conversations in languages other than English: italicized or not? Do we have...
This is part 1 in a planned series of posts about terms that are used as generic pejoratives but that...
A while back, someone pointed me to a book called Domination and the Arts of Resistance, by James C. Scott....
I've been playing Words With Friends, and it's helping me further shape my ideas of what I want Scrabble to...
Mary Anne decided to learn “Bring a Torch, Jeanette Isabella,” and it's one of my favorite Christmas songs (though I...
Something in email a couple of weeks ago indirectly reminded me of an incident from long ago: I used to...
Just posted a new entry in my words-and-wordplay blog that I thought some of y'all might enjoy: Boggle poetry. Embed...
I still haven't figured out how best to connect my word blog with this blog. For now, I'll keep linking...
Over at my words-and-wordplay blog, Shmuel has joined me as a guest blogger. In his first entry, he discusses the...
Can you tell I don't speak German? I started out wanting to say "time flies," and picked German more or...
When you're playing an abstract computer game against one or more computerized opponents (chess, say, or checkers, or Dicewar--any game...