Slang and The Use of Language
An email arrived the other day from someone remarking on my use of slang. What's slang? Feeling like some kind...
Language
The Language of Counter Service
I was standing at the counter, waiting to pay for the delicious scone I'd just wolfed down with scalding black...
Abandoning Language
Anglo-Saxon and Irish have more in common than you might think. In both instances, a sizeable proportion of native speakers...
You might want to …
Is there any more irritating expression than You might want to? You might want to check your facts. You might...
Are you all right?
You know when you walk into a shop and some bored teenager behind the counter gawps at you. Are you...
What Did People Sound Like 100 Years Ago?
Did you ever wonder what people sounded like before mass media homogenised our accents? I wonder about such things, which...
Post-Modernism Generator
We had great discussion about linguistic bullshit over the last few weeks, and here's something else you might like. This...
Products
I got an email today from an insurance company inviting me to purchase one of their products. Product, I thought. ...
Bad Language — The Curse of Gobbledygook
Some old Greek philosopher once said that when he finished writing an essay he read it carefully, and if any...
Bock Bullshit Awards
Here's something I was sent today. Fintan Walsh is an academic from Trinity and no doubt a highly educated man....
