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  1. Language Lounge

     "Humans and Robots Do Not Communicate Well"
    Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 EDT 2018
    Nothing is more intuitive and natural to humans than communicating via language, and specifically, via speech. Language must be central to developing a more robust channel for human-robot communication.

  2. Word Routes

     By the Light of the Moonmoon: The Joy of Reduplication
    Wed Oct 31 00:00:00 EDT 2018
    These days we need all the levity, lunar or otherwise, that we can get. This lexical lunacy is a flimsy excuse for me to write about my favorite type of word: the reduplication. From ack-ack to zip-zap, reduplicative words are silly, childish, catchy, animalistic, nonsensical, and awesome.

  3. Candlepower

     "Disruptive" Names
    Wed Oct 24 00:00:00 EDT 2018
    Out of professional curiosity, I asked first-time author and former Google exec Jessica Powell about how she created the character, company, and place names in her novel The Big Disruption.

  4. Word Count

     Why I'm Writing This Column on a Treadmill
    Thu Oct 18 00:00:00 EDT 2018
    A little eccentricity can be a good thing — especially when it simultaneously enhances creativity and alleviates back pain.

  5. Evasive Maneuvers

     A Decade of Drivel: Happy Column-versary to Me
    Wed Oct 10 00:00:00 EDT 2018
    In the spirit of my tenth anniversary, here's a look back at 10 euphemisms from previous columns that I particularly love—I mean, loathe! Loathe, obviously.

  6. Language Lounge

     What Did God Really Mean by That?
    Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 2018
    Canons, whether you believe that their prime movers are divine or not, are the work of humans, and are surely among our most imaginative creations. But our ways of interpreting and implementing the language of religious canons are equally imaginative and creative.

  7. Word Count

     How to Find Your Six Writing Hats
    Mon Sep 24 00:00:00 EDT 2018
    We often try to do too much when we think and, as a result, we become confused and ineffective. To break through this log-jam, try switching hats.

  8. Candlepower

     Of Kings and Eggs and Presidents
    Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 EDT 2018
    Whatever you read into it, the "All the king's ___" snowclone is now solidly embedded in the popular consciousness and in headline-writers' bag of tricks.

  9. Evasive Maneuvers

     Over Time, Euphemisms Develop
    premium content - available only to Visual Thesaurus subcribers Wed Sep 12 00:00:00 EDT 2018
    Whatever name you go by in plea agreements and apocalyptic prophecies, I'm sure you appreciate discretion. In that spirit, here's my latest roundup of terms that beat around the bush so many times they could give George Orwell vertigo.

  10. Word Routes

     The Lexical Constitution of "Constitution"
    Mon Sep 10 00:00:00 EDT 2018
    As long as there's a literal Constitution to amend and a metaphorical constitution to defend, constitution will remain an important word. Here's a look at this versatile word, just in time for September 17th — Constitution Day.
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