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Why grammar isn't grammar and writing isn't language
April 25, 2024
Hello again! It’s April, and the trees in the park are green, not just sad sticks pointing at the sky. I don’t have any news, once again; I’m chugging away...
Accents and dialects
March 29, 2024
It’s still March for a few days, so I can still call this the March newsletter. Here in Berlin, the weather is becoming nicer, the days are getting longer,...
Bonus issue 1: Dresden
February 20, 2024
I was in Dresden the other weekend for roller derby, and this time I scheduled my train so I could spend a little time in the city. That's the worst part...
What is language, anyway?
February 13, 2024
Hello! This month brings the first entry in a (hopefully) short series about what language is. (I don’t have an answer, sorry.) I will also talk a little bit...
Untranslatable words and speculative fiction
January 26, 2024
Happy New Year from Berlin! Really sneaking in the January newsletter under the wire… I started one on a different topic but then I decided it was too much...
Why is English like that?
December 11, 2023
I’m still working on the format of this newsletter, and I’m going to try starting with the news part of the letter this month. News The thing I alluded to...
Shakespeare with a Southern Accent
November 14, 2023
For this month’s newsletter, I want to talk a little bit about Southern US accents in relation to a delightful video where a man reads Shakespeare with a...
Uncleftish Beholding and language purity
October 13, 2023
Hello, and welcome to the first installment of my newsletter! I originally had a different topic planned, but the amount of going places and tracking down...
Testing
August 22, 2023
This is a test of my new newsletter system. In the event of an actual newsletter, this would be followed by instructions on subscribing. This has been a test...
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