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Misspeaking

Cutting to the Chase

Robin Lakoff | Posted 09.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Semantics, English, Linguistics, Portmanteaus, Language, Acronyms, Truncations, Brangelina, Through-the-Looking-Glass, Neologism, Twitter, Humpty-Dumpty, Latin, Lewis Carroll, Words, Spanglish, Chinglish, English Language, Misspeaking, Living News
Robin Lakoff

It seems obvious that people create shortened forms to save time. And yet, most often, we don't save that much time and may run the risk of endangering intelligibility.

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Blowing Smoke

James M. Lynch | Posted 07.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Positive Thinking, Meetings, Misspeaking, Positive Attitude, Bureaucracy, Positive Outlook, Pollution, But, Management, Living News
James M. Lynch

"But" is a word I could just as well do without. It stops more projects before they even hit the planning stage than it creates.

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Look, Stop Saying "LOOK"

Bill Swadley | Posted 12.21.2008 | Style

Read More: Obamaisms, Obama Speech, Complaints, Misspeaking, Barack Obama, Obama Fans, Style News
Bill Swadley

Sometimes a writer will use the word, 'look' to begin a line, but it will be in the context of a command as, "Look at the puppy," or "Look away before you turn to stone!"

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