10 Years For the last few weeks, I’ve been binge watching the horribly trashy TV show, Love Is Blind. I took a few years off of reality shows, and it has been deliciously awful to dive back into them. This show certainly doesn’t make you think critically about life or love, but ...
I use the term plurilingualism to account for linguistic diversity in this context, following Suresh Canagarajah and Indika Liyanage’s argument that this notion “allows for the interaction and mutual interaction of the languages in a more dynamic way” than multilingualism, which “keeps languages...
The ones doing the hallucinating are us, as we read an LLM-generated text and imagine that it’s the result of intelligence rather than just pattern-recognition algorithms designed to game the Turing test. So ‘simulated intelligence’ might be a better term than ‘artificial intelligence’ (thi...
There’s this term, ‘classroom management.’ Whenever I hear it, I kind of get itchy all over. Why would I want to manage my classroom? I think I’d rather spend my time creating an environment where students can, as much as possible, manage their own learning. Luckily, as a teacher...
German might just have the word you are looking for where English falls short. See this list of some untranslatable German words.
Three Black women are linked to a wealthy and influential white man in Stockholm. Kemi Adeyemi, a successful marketing executive, is hired by Johnny Van Lundin. Flight attendant Brittany-Rae Johnson meets Johnny on a flight and he pursues her even though she’s living with a longterm boyfrien...
The writer Brenda Miller coined the term Hermit Crab essay for her book Tell It Slant co-authored with Suzanne Paola to suggest that non-fiction writing can be structured by borrowing a form we are familiar with from other writings that are not co
I feel a weird sense of clarity, kind of like what I felt when I got diagnosed with this cancer last year. Partly it’s that I clearly need to focus on short-term goals: eating (I lost a few pounds in the last month of suspense, and keeping my weight up is important), staying ...
The first-person narration is nearly flawless, although I don’t know why Molly would twice use the term “lookie-loos” to describe people passing a crime scene. She has lots of little sayings about cleaning, especially how satisfying it is, like “dust we must” and “deep cleaning to ...
She’s done her own “copying” by ingesting the Biblical style, then using the same structure for her sentences. I think the technical term for this is “parataxis” but I could be wrong. Marianne on June 19, 2012 at 11:49 am Yes I imagine it was intentional since the protagonist ...