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Losing It
Reading the New York Times online, I just got sidetracked by a link that said: “Worried about your memory? 5 Signs it’s Serious.” As it happens, I have no short-term memory and little of the other kind either. People are … Continue reading
Attention Wordists
Reading the little profiles of people on tumblr, I noticed that a few people described themselves as eccentric. Like, ‘eccentric 19 year old art student loves cats, drawing, photography cupcakes and random cartoons.’ My feeling is, you don’t describe yourself as eccentric. That’s … Continue reading
Better Words
There are so may feelings and situations for which there are no words in English. 1. What about the feeling when you want to kill your ex-husband? I have that right now. 2. What about that tingle you get when you swallow some … Continue reading
Word Fever
According to some website called Global Language Monitor, the English language will add its millionth word sometime on Wednesday. I’m predicting it will be a stupid one. Other language experts think it’s impossible to count the number of words in … Continue reading
Complicatizing Language
It must be fun to go to college these days. You can learn to use words like problematize, complexify, and nonpluralizable. Read more about this here. Reductionist thinking about binary logic? I am so totally disincentivized to figure out what … Continue reading