thatwhichmatter
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Building alien languages in a lab, + watching languages evolve:
11:32 AM Nov 23rd
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Are we the most aggressively inarticulate generation to come along since, you know, “a long time ago?”
9:51 AM Nov 22nd
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Measuring the boundaries of “most.” Study finds “most” is not identical to “more than half:”
7:27 AM Nov 22nd
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List of phrases that make you wince, offer condescension, or accuse you of complete failure + weakness:
4:32 PM Nov 21st
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STUFFING/DRESSING? Interchangeable, not about prep. STUFFING dates from 1538. DRESSING after 1880 when STUFFING didn’t sound so “mannerly.”
2:14 PM Nov 21st
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@ Not yet. We'll cover that in an upcoming . Thx for the suggestion!
12:45 PM Nov 21st
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On the appearance of gopher wood, kankedort, + other lonely “hapax legomenons:”
7:39 AM Nov 15th
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Igon Value Problem: when writer’s education on a topic is in interviewing, he may offer banal or obtuse generalizations:
8:38 AM Nov 14th
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Rain or shine, a visual selection of what good people are reading:
9:43 AM Nov 13th
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The Universal Book, the whole of human history from its origins, collected neatly on 3×5 index cards:
8:51 AM Nov 13th
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A collection of secret superlatives on one of the most cherished structures in a city, The New York Public Library:
8:01 AM Nov 13th
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From Homer to Joyce to Mann, we like lists because we don’t want to die:
6:32 AM Nov 13th
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FOREWORD/FORWARD? Foreword: book's intro. Forward: onward. (Preface: book's front matter written by author; foreword written by another.)
5:30 AM Nov 13th
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anonyponymous (adj): anonymous + eponymous (e.g., Jules Leotard, Mary Frisbie)
4:25 AM Nov 12th
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On detecting patterns after chaos, the elasticity of “story,” + no such thing as no style:
11:49 AM Nov 11th
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Copacabana (a sentence fragment) explained:
10:04 AM Nov 11th
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Samuel Beckett’s exodus from English—an escape from a mastery:
8:17 AM Nov 11th
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Your comments are wack: (thx @)
7:23 AM Nov 11th
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@ Love it. We'll be posting later today. Thx!
6:38 AM Nov 11th
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After the birth of literacy + the dawn of cinema, why WWI was 1st to be seen + understood by writers:
6:20 AM Nov 11th
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- Name ThatWhichMatter
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- Bio To honor the that/which distinction, and all grammar that which matters.
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