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.).

Dear Sir and/or Hey Bub

They just keep getting smarter. Continue reading

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Shh! The Sh Is Real

A different kind of contagion. Continue reading

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There Was That Time

Running out of good material? Continue reading

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We Have No Palindromes Today

But it’s a fine-looking date nonetheless. Continue reading

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What’s Next?

A romp through my spam folder. Continue reading

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Grape Raisins

In which I consider what *really* matters. Continue reading

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Humour in Labelling – Part 2

Once is happenstance; twice is coincidence . . . Continue reading

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Lost in Space: My Brain, Doing

The coming-together of exercise, knitting, and mathematics. Continue reading

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All Judgement, All the Time

The freedom that doesn’t come from jettisoning sin. Continue reading

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