English has tremendous fluidity. It readily adopts words from foreign languages, often without immediately “anglifying” their spellings or pronunciations. As Shakespeare so aptly demonstrated, English also allows words to be used as various parts of speech without any alteration of form. And English shapes itself differently each generation by accepting and rejecting popular usages and [...]
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Jan
2009
The Changing Times and Words in Writing
Tags: English morphs in various ways, inguist-revered Oxford English Dictionaries, pseudo-words acceptable modern context
01
Nov
2008
Anne Rice Goes from Vampires to Jesus Biographer
It’s Halloween, and Anne Rice has a new book — a memoir in fact — that’s climbing best-seller lists. Everything is normal, then. Normal if it were 1994 — the height of Rice’s megaselling fame as a queen of Southern Gothic pulp.
For those who haven’t been paying attention lately to vampire lit, America’s most famous [...]
