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I recently heard from an old friend who had stumbled upon my website. He said he was shocked when he read this line from my bio: My family says that anymore at the end of the last sentence sounds...

https://andreadallover.com/2024/03/16/positive-anymore/

But this time it’s… on purpose? What?! Yesterday, Benji Smith became the main character on Writer Twitter. It turns out that Mr. Smith has created a database of novels that he obtained throug...

https://andreadallover.com/2023/08/08/more-misidentified-passives/

Content warning: This post is about harmful language and it contains words that are used to dehumanize people. Please take caution. In April 2023, the Atlantic published a 2,500-word opinion piec...

https://andreadallover.com/2023/08/04/george-packer-and-the-atlantics-sad-defense-of-inequity/

Is this dude about to mansplain mansplaining? Hoo boy. Here we go. This is going to be a long post. I’ll go through each part of the article with my usual irreverence, but don’t be fooled. Th...

https://andreadallover.com/2023/07/28/dr-andrew-thomas-tries-to-mansplain-mansplaining/

On May 15, Janne Saarikivi published a turd of an opinion column in YLE (Finland’s national broadcasting company). The article is a prime example of nationalistic fearmongering. It has the appe...

https://andreadallover.com/2023/05/26/janne-saarikivis-fascism-lite-or-how-to-fearmonger-with-statistics/

There’s a new linguistic database in town! It’s called Grambank and according to its website it was “designed to be used to investigate the global distribution of features, language univer...

https://andreadallover.com/2023/04/24/grambank-linguistic-database/

If you learn about attempts at spelling reform in English, you’re bound to come across Noah Webster’s suggestions. Webster is considered the grandfather of American English since he had such ...

https://andreadallover.com/2023/04/20/some-of-noah-websters-spelling-changes-havent-happened-yet/

A New York Times article from 1977 article rolled across my screen recently (courtesy of Mark Harris). It concerns language change and boy is it a doozy. The article asked members of the American...

https://andreadallover.com/2023/04/04/how-not-to-talk-about-language-change/

I was recently asked about the meaning of the phrase Would you rather have unlimited bacon but no more video games or games, unlimited games, but no more games? On first glance, this phrase may n...

https://andreadallover.com/2022/12/03/the-meaning-of-would-you-rather-have-unlimited-bacon-but-no-more-video-games-or-games-unlimited-games-but-no-more-games/

I came across an interesting line about language in Jonathan Hickman’s comic The Black Monday Murders. If you ask any competent linguist what’s the most spoken language on Earth, they will te...

https://andreadallover.com/2022/11/30/big-language-claim-in-hickmans-black-monday-murders/