Department Index
The Good Word 1998:
Language and how we use it.
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- A Few Well-Chosen Words Our collective unconscious online.
Dec. 9, 1998 - Yours, Mine, and Ours Whose God is it, anyway?
Oct. 10, 1998 - Plain Speaking A Y2002 Problem.
Sept. 10, 1998 - Trash Talking The many forms of empty and hypocritical speech.
July 9, 1998 - Bible English Like it or not, the good book lies behind everything you say.
June 3, 1998 - Alphabet Soup A technological history of reading and writing.
May 20, 1998 - The Lie of the Land Equivocations, deceptions, fibs, and other forms of not telling the truth.
April 2, 1998 - Like Sands Through the Hourglass At the end of the day, what does it all mean?
Feb. 19, 1998 - Noted With Pleasure The glorious art of citing your sources.
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