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.).

This Dang Place

Posted on 13 March 2022 by Isabel Gibson

What’s beyond the green door? Don’t go there. Continue reading →

Posted in Language and Communication, Laughing Frequently | Tagged Miscellany, Signs | 4 Comments

Sharing Size

Posted on 24 February 2022 by Isabel Gibson

Stay alert. The marketeers are loose again. Continue reading →

Posted in Language and Communication, Laughing Frequently | Tagged Business, Culture, Food & Drink | 10 Comments

Look Again

Posted on 15 January 2022 by Isabel Gibson

Three bridges and a snowy egret along a body of water. And a fine point of grammar, specified if not clarified. Continue reading →

Posted in Language and Communication, Photos of Built Stuff, Photos of Flora, Thinking Broadly | Tagged Birds, Bridges, Science, Water, Word Play | 6 Comments

Sprezzatura

Posted on 01 January 2022 by Isabel Gibson

Language fun. Yes, really. Continue reading →

Posted in Language and Communication, Laughing Frequently | Tagged Attitudes, Word Play | 14 Comments

Whom dat?

Posted on 15 December 2021 by Isabel Gibson

Who dat who say or write whom? Continue reading →

Posted in Language and Communication, Laughing Frequently | Tagged Word Play | 14 Comments

Heater Face: Office-Alone Variant

Posted on 11 December 2021 by Isabel Gibson

As I wait for inexplicably late printing (because COVID, I presume), I see a heater face way behind the counter to join the one in the banner. This one evokes the Home Alone face, which makes me wonder . . … Continue reading →