morphosis
Here’s a passage from my review of Adam Roberts’s edition of Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria: As the culmination...
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pronoun trouble
“Hah! That’s it! Hold it right there!” And then, knowledgeably, confidentially, to the audience: “Pronoun...
word games
Ian Bogost reports on what some people think of as a big moment in the history of international capitalism: At the...
The Grand Academy of Silicon Valley
After writing today’s post I couldn’t shake the notion that all this conversation about simplifying and...
mother (and other) tongues
This map of languages around the world is messed up in several ways, some of them easily avoidable, some not so much....
computational thinking
Jeannette M. Wing describes “computational thinking” in this PDF: Consider these everyday examples: When your...
he, she, they
I’ve come across a number of articles lately — here and here and here, for instance...
the dyes from gas-tar
To John McWhorter's suggestion that we should start performing Shakespeare's plays in translation, D. H....