Should English Be the Official Language of the United States?
Donald Trump just signed an executive order making English the official language of the United…
Current Events
Language
Politics
Language
Why Is There a Word for That?
Defenestration means "the action of throwing someone out of a window". Why do we need…
Language
Credit Where Credit Is Due
One of the big fears people have with ChatGPT and its ilk is that people…
Fiction and Humor
Language
Let’s Put the S in Sex
Photo by Trevor John Williams on Unsplash I think everyone knows that X is the…
Language
Philosophy
Turns Out Knowingness Is a Word, and a Useful Word at That
Photo by Steve Johnson on Unsplash Knowingness is, "a posture of always ‘already knowing’, of…
Language
Copyediting
Photo by Amador Loureiro on Unsplash I just read an article by Helen Betya Rubinstein…
Language
All Well and Good
Photo by Carson Masterson on Unsplash According to the internet, "all is well" is correct…
Language
Philosophy
A Third Post on ChatGPT
Photo by DeepMind on Unsplash The first two posts are here and here. Yesterday I…