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People fight about all sorts of things online. Most of you probably don’t spend a lot of time reading comments on YouTube, but you probably know they’re not particularly intellectually stimulating places. I’ve been interested in why this is the case, why there’s so much drama online, for the past ten years. My most recent book ‘Religious Talk Online’ looks at how Christians, […]
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Implausible as it may seem, while all speakers of a language have knowledge of language, they often have little knowledge about language. Their knowledge of their spoken language, remains, as we say, implicit, unavailable to consciousness. A literate education is largely responsible for making that implicit knowledge explicit, something to think about. And that, the […]
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Tim William Machan, editor of Imagining Medieval English - Language Structures and Theories 500-1500 (2016) explores the significance of the phrase 'language and literature'.
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The letters in Volume 2 show a Hemingway very different from the one we see in his novels—a funny, irreverant writer carrying on casual conversations with his friends. His letters are peppered with 1920s slang and words he and his friends invented to talk to each other. Take our quiz and see how many you can figure out!
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Word nerd alert! The New York Times announces the 50 Most Frequently Looked-up Words of 2010. Check out Philip Corbett’s observations on 50 Fancy Words…
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One of my favorite Cambridge books I've read in the past couple years is Ruth Wajnryb's You Know What I Mean?. Wajnryb is an Australian language expert who parses the slipperiness of meaning in general.
Read MoreRuth Wajnryb is WORDS columnist for the Sydney Morning Herald. Her new book, You Know What I Mean? plumbs the depths of language, and the shifty, slippery meanings of our words. Here, a meditation on her own first name. Although you probably have less reason than some to look up ‘ruth’ in the dictionary, doing […]
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