Last Rites for Vanishing Words
A language is an ecosystem, and words, like species, may be predators or prey, hosts or competitors
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‘Zucknesis,’ ‘Vadervite,’ ‘Mistermister’ and 19 More Words for How We Live Now
The age of mobile devices, the urban resurgence and the Internet has created a lot of new weird situations that we don't have language for.
The Best Part of Middle Age: Letting Go of Shame
I want to talk about a topic most of us shy away from discussing, for reasons inherent in the definition of the word itself: shame.
