From the Oort Cloud
We’re all surrounded by a cloud of vocabulary. The words you know well, that you use daily, float nearby, coming easily to the hand. This
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The Things People Say: A Simple Reality Check
As regular readers of my articles know, I have a bit of an issue with the way that people—especially highly public and influential people—use and
The Things People Say: Enthymemes
Most people know what a ’meme’ is. The dictionary definition is: “an element of a culture or system of behavior that may be considered to
The Things People Say: Rhetorical Devices and the Abuse of Statistics
Let’s write a reality check. Not all that long ago I repeatedly heard that the unemployment rate in the US was not 4.9 percent as
The Things People Say: Headlines, Fault Lines and Colorization
I’d be willing to bet that most people have had the experience of reading a headline in a news article (or media chyron) only to
