Words & Stuff

Every now and then (as, more or less, in column J, column cc, and column hhh), I'm struck by the urge to issue a prescriptivist rant about the language mistakes that other people make. (I, of course, never langage errors of any kind making.) This is another such occasion. Some years back I noticed that […]

Couple years ago, I happened across the Web site for Slashdot for the first time. (Slashdot is a Web newsletter about technology; its tag line is "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters.") I found the content interesting, but my first impression was mostly amusement over the URL, which of course was http://slashdot.org (read that aloud, […]