by Jamie Chavez | Sep 19, 2016 | Words & Language
We’ve talked a lot here about how the language we use—the words, the grammar—is a constantly evolving, living, almost breathing thing. (And still, still we want to stop that process! Human nature, I guess.) I’ve written about it in various ways, from...
by Jamie Chavez | Aug 29, 2016 | Words & Language
Back in the early ’90s, I learned a new way of communicating. Communicate: to make known; to inform; to convey knowledge or information; to impart or transmit; to send information or messages sometimes back and forth; speak, gesticulate, or write to another to convey...
by Jamie Chavez | Aug 1, 2016 | Words & Language
When do yes and no mean the same thing? Do they? I’m trying to wrap my head around this and I’m not sure I have the knowledge/vocabulary to express it. But I’m going to find out. Here, this: You’re writing along, using your personal writer’s voice in your little blog,...
by Jamie Chavez | Jul 30, 2016 | Words & Language
We’ve talked a lot about how language—words and grammar—changes over time (here’s one of my posts with links to many of the rest: “The Language Metamorphosis”), but this article takes a really long view: What will the English language be like in 100 years? The global...
by Jamie Chavez | Jul 21, 2016 | Books You Might Like, Words & Language
In Britain, … [a] more common complaint is that British English is generally being tainted by Americanisms. As I have suggested, outrage at American influence was common among Victorian defenders of British English, and its volume increased as first American silent...
