Month: February 2023
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On Practice
Trevize leaned his head back and laughed heartily. Pelorat’s quiet face took on a trace of hurt. “Why are you laughing at me?” “Not you, Janov,” said Trevize. “I was laughing at my own stupidity. Where you’re concerned, I am completely grateful. You were perfectly right, you know.” “To take up the importance of human origins?”…
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Add Sapir-Whorf to Post-Modernism and You Get an Orwellian Ministry of Truth
One of the deterrents of regular exercise is the time it consumes from my daily budget of productive hours, so I’ve developed a habit of catching up on podcasts at the gym to fill more of my day with literature and quality language. It so happened that tonight’s listening regimen struck a serendipitous chord on…
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Tag Questions — Catty Conversation
As a child, a friend chided me once for ending every sentence with “don’t you think?” It was a habit I had picked up from my mother, who often spoke that way. Today, I recoil at the overuse of tag questions. By tag questions, I refer to those contracted verb phrases that contrast with the…
Ezra Vasquez 