Believe in People: The Essential Karel Capek
The cliche is blamed for spoiling language and style. While this may be true, its destructive...
Tag: linguistics
Landmarks
I am wary of the dangers of fetishizing dialect and archaism – all that mollocking and sukebinding...
The Etymologicon
Heckling is, or once was, the process of removing the knots from wool. Sheep are notoriously...
Landmarks
Although I knew Gaelic to be richly responsive to the sites in which it was spoken, it was my...
Flowers for Algernon
“I have a right to know everything that pertains to the experiment, and that includes my...
