Thoughts on Freedom Writers (the movie)

originally posted January 22, 2007
link updated; no text revisions, May 2021

In this week’s (January 22, 2007) Newsweek, “The Last Word” columnist Anna Quindlen discusses some underlying themes of the new movie Freedom Writers and wonders how society lost a therapy that “[made] pain tolerable, confusion clearer and the self stronger.” She doesn’t go  … continue reading

The new English “dialect”

originally posted January 18, 2007
reformatted with no revisions in May 2021

From today’s (January 18) Nashville Tennessean comes this article about a new English “dialect”—so new, in fact, that it still doesn’t have a proper, technical name. The author of the article, staff writer Jaime Sarrio, calls it “text speak” or “Web slanguage” or  … continue reading