language
politically correct
Monday, January 21st, 2008To honor MLK’s birthday, I’d like to take a little stab at political correctness.
It is my view that promoting politically correct speech is a bad idea. Political correctness catches as many dolphins as it does tuna in it’s all encompassing net. It is the stuff of alienation and power playing, not community building. It […]
Sprachgefuhl
Saturday, September 8th, 2007Reading David Warlick today pondering the use of Wikipedia as a source of information for a piece he’s writing, it occurred to me that the English language obliquely suggests the ambivalence that he feels regarding it’s usage.
I want to use the Wikipedia! And, I don’t want to use the Wikipedia! My reasons for wanting […]