nom-chompsky replied to your quote: The feminist blogosphere is: young, but not too… Found myself running through that demographic snapshot like a checklist. Very interesting, …
Words the Right has turned against us
I was reading this piece about Multiculturalism and, since it seems I am in a particularly rant-y mood today, I started thinking of the many …
How to close doors: language policing and the other
Last night I met Marietje Schaake, European Union MP, representative of Dutch party D66. I already knew her politics in some depth because I’ve been …
Two Robust Ideas
kombuchatime: It baffles me that the word “fat” is used as an adjective. That’s like saying: I am freckle. I am height. I am cancer. …
Toxic Euphemisms: do you take care of yourself?
I mentioned on several posts that I read Spanish language media daily. I might need to stop reading some of it, at least for a …
A thought on language use vis-à-vis “privilege”
I often think of the rhetoric used to describe people in challenging socioeconomic situations (i.e. “the poor”, “the homeless”, etc.). The one thing that always …
Thou shall not read
via The Guardian, ‘Oral sex’ definition prompts dictionary ban in US schools Dictionaries have been removed from classrooms in southern California schools after a parent …
Advertising, worthless, marketable – thank Shakespeare
A great list of Words Shakespeare Invented. Apparently he invented over 1700 of our common words by changing nouns into verbs, changing verbs into adjectives, …
Jon Stewart’s Rally to Restore Sanity
Jon Stewart’s Rally to Restore Sanity kohenari: I think it’s pretty clear, after all, that Jon Stewart doesn’t think that mentally ill people are ruining …
Today in “language memes that annoy me”
The casual use of “I’m officially whatever, whatever”. I’ve only noticed its insurgence in the past couple of months or so and as time passes …