Category Archives: Language and Communication

Playing with, and ranting about, language: miscommunication, badly worded signs and questions, and changing usage (Anyone heard from “take” lately? Didn’t think so.).

Say Wut

Posted on 25 May 2023 by Isabel Gibson

A plea for a reinstatement, not a request for a repeat. Continue reading →

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It’s Official

Posted on 06 May 2023 by Isabel Gibson

I have become my mother. Continue reading →

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Pre, fi, pro, fum

Posted on 22 January 2023 by Isabel Gibson

We do what we can. Continue reading →

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Do Not Follow Not

Posted on 14 January 2023 by Isabel Gibson

Send what you want out into the Universe . . . Continue reading →

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All Too Too

Posted on 10 December 2022 by Isabel Gibson

Say it once once, dagnab it. Continue reading →

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Distracted Again

Posted on 20 November 2022 by Isabel Gibson

Another linguistic ponderable. Continue reading →

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One Right Way

Posted on 04 November 2022 by Isabel Gibson

More adventures in Writing-about-Cooking Land. Continue reading →

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A Cleaner Canvas

Posted on 29 October 2022 by Isabel Gibson

The art of architecture and of cooking. Continue reading →

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Not One Thing

Posted on 28 August 2022 by Isabel Gibson

It’s not just attitude advice. Continue reading →

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