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Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign for the US presidency will provide countless writers and academics — linguists, sociologists, political scientists, journalistic ethicists — with material for...

https://chryss.eu/2016/10/donald-trumps-odd-discourse-markers/

1. I am finding myself in the middle of the first complete presidential campaign, with no incumbent in the running, since I came to the US. Of course, a lot of it feels unfamiliar. First and fo...

https://chryss.eu/2016/07/the-saddest-part-is-that-there-isnt-much-we-can-do-about-it-at-this-point/

Last week a piece of science news popped up: The jet stream had apparently crossed the equator and thus created a “climate emergency” that announced a catastrophic collapse of the food supp...

https://chryss.eu/2016/07/the-credibility-of-science-news-how-to-find-out-if-a-newspaper-article-is-trustworthy/

Several of my friends posted this picture over the last week, this year’s Hanukkah holiday; typically with a caption similar to the one I used. The photograph pretty much stands on its own. ...

https://chryss.eu/2015/12/chanukah-5692-1932-kiel-germany/

Women in STEM, diversity in the workplace, problematic sexual or racial imagery at tech conferences: Not a week goes by without a discussion along these lines. There’s an aspect to the conversa...

https://chryss.eu/2015/07/its-not-about-avoiding-to-offend/

Melinda and I just had differing intuitions about whether +6 °F / -14.5 °C can be properly referred to as “still warm out”. To my excuse, the context was my car, which really is overdue a...

https://chryss.eu/2015/01/things-that-are-relative/

Because Melinda and I just had a conversation about this: Alces alces — AmE: moose; BrE: elk (mostly); DE: Elch; FR: élan or orignal.  The word moose seems to be borrowed from an Algonquian...

https://chryss.eu/2014/02/the-naming-of-deer-en-de-fr/

On his blog, Arnold Zwicky takes on the portmanteau frape, a word that blends Facebook with rape to mean something along the lines of take over someone’s unattended Facebook account to post di...

https://chryss.eu/2013/09/of-frapes-and-other-misadventures/

The Daily Mail, even though far from my favourite British paper, regularly posts very beautiful and interesting photo series. One example is this stunning selection from the New York municipal ar...

https://chryss.eu/2013/06/yinglish-four-hands-for-fun-and-instruction/

The other day, my partner Melinda reported the following text that came with a video about fly fishing in Hampshire: “Highlighting the beauty of southern England’s chalk streams, the birth p...

https://chryss.eu/2013/04/harmful-abstraction/