In contrast, I’d say that the “This is Just to Say” poetry bot’s purpose is to mess with language in a delightful way. [Read more]
Monthly Archives: September 2017
Instructions like these are no doubt meant to fend off phone calls from irritable consumers complaining that their expensive chocolate tastes like bitter dirt (or maybe frosty pod rot). [Read more]
Have you ever noticed how proverbs sometimes contradict each other? For instance, “Look before you leap” gets pushback from “He who hesitates is lost.” [Read more]
Have you looked at a dishwashing scrubby lately? [Read more]
Maybe you know what it is to begin to do one thing, and find you have to do something else in order to get on with the first thing, but then that second thing requires a third, and pretty soon you’re deep into a task that seems quite remote from the first thing you set out to do. [Read more]
If we play a word association game and I say “bathing,” you might take that “bathing” and match it with suit, or sun, or tub, or swimming. It would surprise me a lot if you came up with “forest.” [Read more]
Having seen this ordered list, does it make you want to try it out to see if you can spot an exception? [Read more]
What attention I wasn’t spending on preventing a fall off the side of the mountain or a painful slither among the loose rocks I spent instead considering how we know what we know about word order in our native language. [Read more]
The second phrase won’t let us wring our hands or wave them helplessly. [Read more]
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