Language & Politics
In the comments, Mike at the Big Stick writes: I’ve often used the term Progressive Conservative for myself (although I stop sub-labeling after watching all of ED Kain’s self-labeling acrobatics). I would just note...
Tagged: language
I’m doing this for the Centaurs
This is very nice of Conor to say, and his larger point is something a lot of commenters here have been saying for quite a while – labels are unimportant, they simply can’t define...
Missteps
Many reliable writing guides tell us to visualize all figures of speech. This is almost always good advice. It’s particularly good advice while reading a piece of bad writing. The infelicitous but visualized figure...
excellent well, you are a fishmonger
“The less/fewer distinction isn’t really that hard to learn, but it would be much easier to not have to bother. I can’t think of any situations in which the existence of the two different...
bad analogies
I was out for drinks with friends and Israel came up in the conversation. A friend of mine said that she’d heard somewhere – Fox maybe? – that if you likened Gaza to a...
