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I find the concept of a majority undefined by any common feature rather hard to grapple with
Why would a people usually so meticulous about every aspect of life be so seemingly careless about the correct use of a foreign language?
I am quite retro. I like looking at the past. My husband is almost entirely so. He lives in it
The White House promised a ‘very consequential response’
Ross Perlin’s exuberant, radical Language City explores ‘the most linguistically diverse city in the history of the world’
The history of the word is fearfully complicated and obscure
It is laughable to see how the word has become grist for the academic mil
I was interested by the way ‘share’ has become just another synonym for ‘announce’
If Wittgenstein got decimal arrangement from anywhere, it might have been from Whitehead and Russell’s Principia Mathematica
He looked at me like I had saved his child’s life, but he apparently didn’t know how to say all of this, so he just said ‘I love you’
