The Polls, the Press, and All the Ways the Information Loop Goes Wrong
The Polling frenzy In the wake of the Democratic Party changing candidates there has been a frenzy of polls and press releases on the pol...
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Education is one of the Trump campaign's important positions Until November 9, 2016, I never imagined there would be any reason to co... -
Tense versus aspect Some languages do not have verb tenses. The English language has only one tense: the simple past tense, also known ... -
Education can't solve economic inequality When my guru forwarded Nick Hanauer 's article in The Atlantic , " Better Schools W... -
Schlegel coined the term These days, the concept of "romantic irony" is particularly difficult to grasp for a number of reasons. ... -
Money isn't just pixel dust! In an earlier post I described money as “pixel dust.” I was being cute—way too cute! Sometimes an analo... -
"I might've fallen for that when I was fourteen and a little more green But it's amazing what a couple of years can mean ... -
Descriptive versus prescriptive grammar I still haven’t recovered from the revelation that “grammatical mistake” isn’t a mistake. Eng... -
“Vagina” is masculine I first came across this factoid thirty years ago in Daphne Marlatt ’s novel Ana Historic . It came up again more ... -
The "Ball of string" theory I believe in the “ball of string” theory of learning English. Imagine that the English language is ... -
The Choice is clear Faced with a choice between free will and determinism, the choice has always been clear. Neither our legal system nor...