Daily Archives: January 17, 2005

We love it when the various voices on our computer sound like they’re talking to each other. Sometimes they actually are, but mostly it is just serendipitous juxtapositioning which nevertheless exposes counterbalance and fault lines in arguments which would be invisible … Continue reading →

One of the factors that has made English the dominant global language (overwhelming military, economic and cultural hegemony may have something to do with it as well) is the plasticity and adjustability of its lexicon. Unlike Spanish or French, there … Continue reading →