SOMETIMES A BOOK IS LIFE, NOT ART T. K. touches the searing, life-or-death buttons of life. Would you, dear writer, dare to do the same?
PLANET WORD: WHERE LANGUAGE COMES TO LIFE The Planet Word museum was richer than Alice’s rabbithole and just as entertaining.
Why grammar? Wittgenstein said, “the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of language.” How’s that working today?
Beyond Grammar: Pesky pronouns – they A man I know has his knickers in a twist over pronouns. He is concerned that people will be fined for using the wrong pronoun, and his nephew goes so far as to say that “political correctness,” as exemplified in a discussion about pronouns, is a “cancer on society.” It’s all balled up with freedomContinue reading “Beyond Grammar: Pesky pronouns – they”