Language and Languages

May 5, 2020

How to Talk About Coronavirus

The coronavirus pandemic has upended all kinds of human behavior, including speech. Conversations are mediated by masks and screens, their sentences strung together with new vocabulary: […]
March 3, 2020

Everyone’s a Curator Now

Recently Maryellen Stewart, a freelance copywriter for luxury brands, was window-shopping in SoHo when she noticed a large sign in a restaurant window advertising a “curated” […]
September 18, 2019

Does Influencer Grammar Matter?

In Southeast Asia, watchdog accounts call out misspelled and otherwise muddled English-language captions.