Credit Where Credit Is Due
One of the big fears people have with ChatGPT and its ilk is that people will take credit for writing...
Language
Let’s Put the S in Sex
Photo by Trevor John Williams on Unsplash I think everyone knows that X is the sexiest letter. X is the...
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 purporting to know the answers...
Copyediting
Photo by Amador Loureiro on Unsplash I just read an article by Helen Betya Rubinstein called "Against Copyediting: Is It...
All Well and Good
Photo by Carson Masterson on Unsplash According to the internet, "all is well" is correct while "all is good" is...
A Third Post on ChatGPT
Photo by DeepMind on Unsplash The first two posts are here and here. Yesterday I "wrote" a post describing what...
Some Thoughts on ChatGPT
Photo by Andrea De Santis on Unsplash Everyone seems to be freaking out about Large Language Models lately. These troll...
Why Are We OK with Adults Cursing So Much?
Photo by Brett Jordan on Unsplash We have a cursing problem. Cursing is constant and never ending. Almost every conversation...
Why Don’t We Let Kids Curse?
Photo by Nsey Benajah on Unsplash The first time Gabriel cursed, he was four years old. I was at the...
Trying to Sound Smart
I work part time as an English tutor at a local community college. I give all kinds of writing advice...
