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  1. Evasive Maneuvers

    Volunteer Smurfs Ride Experience Devices
    Here are the latest eggs from language's basket of drivel, served fresh in your monthly euphemism omelet.
  2. Language Lounge

    Let Internet Randos Be Your Guide
    Online review aggregators collect information of a kind that used to be ephemeral but now is more enduring. Is this a good thing? I'm not so sure.
  3. Candlepower

    The Lingo of Film Noir
    Gunsels, gumshoes, and hard-boiled dames: Your guide to the slangy talk in Hollywood films of the late 1940s and early 1950s.
  4. Evasive Maneuvers

    Now-Ists, Creators, and Other Lexical Emergencies
    Feast your eyes on the latest roundup of our favorite dribbles of dreck.
  5. Language Lounge

    Age-Related Texting Disorder
    Just as there can be a disconnect between intention and interpretation in other more traditional communication channels, the same thing can happen in texting, and the disconnect may well occur for some of the same reasons.
  6. Word Count

    How to Recover From a Writing Rejection
    Don't let rejection get you down! Learn how to recover from writing rejection with these tips.
  7. Candlepower

    Where Do Place Names Come From?
    Kings, committees, contests, magnates, and the occasional error have all left their marks on our maps.
  8. Evasive Maneuvers

    Strategic Flexibility and Other Bendy Balderdash
    Savor every moment of this month's euphemism roundup.
  9. Language Lounge

    I Think We're All Bayesians on This Bus
    Why is predictive typing so much more accurate and useful than predictive speech?
  10. Word Count

    How to Reduce Writing Shame
    Don't feel shameful when reducing your writing goals.

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