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brennan.daySep 16, 2026

Proper English is a Myth: There's No 'Correct' Way to Write

Responding to a blog post urging people to 'please learn how to write,' I pull rank with my English degree to argue there's no such thing as proper English. Looking at the 18th-century grammarians who invented 'correctness,' the linguistic racism of policing dialects from AAVE to Jamaican Patois, and why blogging should be about meaning, not mechanics.

personal essaySocial Commentary

soulcruzer

soulcruzerSep 14, 2026

I went back through the passages I’d highlighted …

I went back through the passages I’d highlighted in Thee Psychick Bible and found a pattern I hadn’t quite seen while reading the book in sequence. Beneath the sigils, cut-ups, ritual instructions and countercultural provocation, the book keeps returning to the deliberate construction of conditions: symbols that focus desire, rituals that interrupt habit, language that...

wander bean

wander beanSep 2, 2026

flotsamlanguage

One Thing I've Learned

One Thing I've LearnedAug 31, 2026

A "sprue" is the cardboard sheet from which you punch out game pieces

Also has meanings in model-making, cooking/gardening, manufacturing, and medicine!

soulcruzer

soulcruzerAug 26, 2026

Poem of the week: Is Your Country a He Or a She in Your Mouth by Patricia Lockwood

Patricia Lockwood’s poem Is Your Country a He or a She in Your Mouth? removes country from the map and puts it inside the body. The title doesn’t ask whether a country is male or female. It asks what the country becomes in your mouth. The mouth pronounces the nation and gives it a pronoun,...

identityLanguage

Today I LearnedAug 23, 2026

Orwell's Six Rules for Writing

Clear prose as a defense against vague and dishonest thought

writinglanguage

Today I LearnedAug 23, 2026

ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English

A controlled language for writing unambiguous technical instructions

technical-writingdocumentation

Ewan’s Blog

Ewan’s BlogAug 12, 2026

We Are the Yew and Flame

Lindsay WardellAug 8, 2026

For the Love of Language

I love studying languages. Learning a new language takes time, and sometimes we assume we should be better at it. But learning to communicate with new groups helps us to understand and connect with the people around us.

personallanguage

RumonationsAug 6, 2026

On the Origins Of, and Our Responses to, Terminology

Borrowing an invitation from Vanessa Machado de Oiveira, via the introduction from her book, Outgrowing Modernity, to "[understand] that complexity resists neatness - and so should the language we use to navigate it."

languagecomplexity

Ewan’s Blog

Ewan’s BlogJul 25, 2026

Chrìochnaich Mi An Cholaiste. Tha Mi Caillte.

A short A2-level Gaelic (Scottish, Gàidhlig na h-Alba) retelling of my post “College Is Done. I am Lost.” – written and checked as carefully as possible, but likely still has mistakes, so take it as a learner's effort rather than a polished translation.

gaelicgàidhlig

Ewan’s Blog

Ewan’s BlogJul 5, 2026

We Are Starting to Sound Like the Thing We Built

“Stay on the road. Keep clear of the moors.“

I'm Not Doctor Who

I'm Not Doctor WhoJun 28, 2026

#oneaday Day 751: Read/write access

There are a lot of things I don't like about myself, but one of the things that I have always been rather pleased with is my willingness to engage with the English language. A lot of this stems from being encouraged well at an early age, both by my parents and at school, but also...

book influencersBookTOk

Domination Chronicles PodcastJun 25, 2026

Episode 23: Bishops, Papal Bulls, and the Problem of Domination

Steve Newcomb and Peter d’Errico discuss a Catholic bishops’ Doctrine of Discovery symposium, papal bulls, revocation, and the deeper issue of domination.

Ewan's Project DocumentationJun 16, 2026

A modular, high-performance Rust framework for generating constructed languages (conlangs).

󱤑󱥡Jun 12, 2026

This is my nasin for writing toki pona. My nasin includes things meant for better typesetting, improved readability of text, and preserving the generally artistic nature of toki pona whether that is in sitelen pona or sitelen Lasina. Most of the readability that I talk about boils down to: When dealing with multiple subjects, several head-nouns or verbs, your text might get cluttered and you might visually end up with a huge wall of text. This can be, and probably will be, readable, but it doesn...

languagetoki-pona

Domination Chronicles PodcastJun 8, 2026

Episode 22: Where Are We Now? Why Domination Is the Beginning of the Conversation, Not the End

In this episode of *Domination Chronicles*, Steven T. Newcomb and Peter d’Errico explore why “domination” has become a slogan instead of a serious inquiry—and why language, law, history, and power must be carefully unpacked.

Domination Chronicles PodcastMay 25, 2026

Episode 21: “Tribal Sovereignty” 101: Limited Sovereignty, Federal Domination, and the Language Trap

Steve and Peter unpack “tribal sovereignty,” federal anti-Indian law, Cohen’s Handbook, and the domination framework hidden in plain sight.

underreacted

underreactedMay 21, 2026

japanese verb conjugation the simple hard way

japaneselanguage

brennan.dayMay 12, 2026

What We Lose with Cultural Extinction: The Red Thread Cut

In 1995, China abducted six-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima—the recognized 11th Panchen Lama—severing the chain of mutual recognition at the heart of Tibetan Buddhist succession. Meanwhile, Michif, a language born from Cree verbs and French nouns that belonged to no one but the Métis People, has nearly vanished within living memory. Both losses are the same act: colonialism's weaponization of continuity. On the extinction of languages, the cutting of red threads, and what it means to inherit a chain with links already missing.

personal essayhistory

Domination Chronicles PodcastApr 18, 2026

Episode 20 - UNTRUSTWORTHY “TRUST”: DOMINATION, FEAR, AND FEARLESSNESS

Today we deep dive into the legal and philosophical foundations of the "federal Indian law trust doctrine." We argue that the term "trust" is a euphemism for a relationship of domination rather than a protective legal obligation.

What the Sky Wants

What the Sky WantsMar 27, 2026

Should I go in, I ask, eyes searching the rippling green.

This Looks Like A BlogMar 9, 2026

Second Langauge Acquisition, Pt. 1

educationlinguistics

Tech Over ChaiMar 1, 2026

The impact of connotations in tech (an Indian pov)

An ecosystem evolves with the meaning and context of the words/conventions used by it's participants. We need shared understanding to have meaningful conversations around topics. The engineering & scientific communities over the world have created common parlance where applicable, where does Indian context fit in?

languageengineering