Stop Changing My Language for Your Feelings!
“One hundred percent of all mothers are women.” To most people, this statistic is an example of stating the obvious and gets them asking...
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A Place for Prescriptivism
Note: I've updated this a bit since I first wrote it in August 2018. A lot of linguists and language teachers seem to practice what I...
Learning Language to Communicate
This is taken from material I recently prepared for some Chinese high school teachers of English undergoing continuing education. The...
Use it or Lose it!
"Use it or lose it!" So the saying goes. The first time I heard someone say it was when I was standing in front of a chair as a child. I...
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