SILLY WOKE Flippant “woke” judgments are as dangerous to our union as the superficial judgments made by racists ad embittered patriarchs.
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”
Beyond Grammar: Gun talk in America There has to be a cultural change before the gun violence subsides, and that change is in our own hands in a way that legislation is not. Just as we are changing our culture by revising language regarding race and gender, we might revisit our use of gun language. The first step is to increase our awarenessContinue reading “Beyond Grammar: Gun talk in America”
Why do we need grammar? Grammar is a mental machine which takes our thoughts and makes them comprehensible to others.