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The Strippers, Trump, and JD Vance
On No Kings Day I've been reminded of a famous meme...
Oct 19
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Alex Went
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Of narrative and rhetoric
The devaluation of political discourse
Oct 13
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Alex Went
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Zen and the art of content optimization
I’ve been reading a book about graphic design whose author takes inspiration from his experience of Japanese culture.
Mar 12, 2021
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Alex Went
The Unbearable Business of Lying
More failures of attribution from the internet
Mar 15, 2019
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Alex Went
Please, don’t critique me!
The word ‘critic’ originally denoted someone whose job was to judge between a good or bad action, a defendant’s guilt or innocence, or the positive or…
Jan 4, 2019
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Alex Went
A Question of Style
Because everyone uses language differently, style guides exist to provide some degree of consistency.
Dec 16, 2018
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Alex Went
From basket to casket
Verbal ambiguities are frequently the cause of laughter, sometimes at inappropriate moments.
Dec 6, 2018
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Alex Went
English Evolution
English should be a relatively easy language to learn and use.
Jul 1, 2018
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Alex Went
The '-ize' have it
Many British English speakers disapprove of spellings such as ‘criticize’ or ‘modernize’, as if the letter ‘z’ were some devilish American plot designed…
Jun 27, 2018
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Alex Went
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