For the Love of Language

LANGUAGE | WRITING | WORDS

In the Great, Green Room

But where did all the colors go?

WRITING | ENGLISH

The Hard and Soft Rules of Dialogue

The confusing customs of…

LANGUAGE | ENGLISH

Why Titles Don’t Contain Periods

Disambiguating the “omitted period”…

LANGUAGE | ENGLISH

The Art of Scattered Alliteration

How one common device can be used…

Is the Oxford Comma Too Posh for Luddites?

The origins and uses of Oxford’s contentious comma

The Art of the Em Dash and the Gradation of Sentence Breaks

Disambiguating periods, commas…

WRITING | CREATIVITY

Why I Write

It’s only natural

WRITING

Why My High School Teacher Banned Linking Verbs

And when he finally freed me…

LANGUAGE

The Banned Words List

The prohibition of words and the linguistic gymnastics…