Obama is seen as very, very cool. I think a lot of people find him sexy.

English, however, is kinky. It has a predilection for dressing up like Welsh on lonely nights.

Every third person in the world is a drama queen. And crying 'victim,' especially when you're not really a victim in any real way, feels good. It feels good to cry victim if you're not one.

Loving your language means a command of its vocabulary beyond the level of the everyday.

Texting is fingered speech. Now we can write the way we talk.

People have been warning us that language was going to the dogs ever since Latin started turning into French. Yet the dogs in question never seem to emerge yelping on the horizon.

We must neither behave as children by resisting honesty, nor allow ourselves to be treated as children by having honesty withheld.