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In a two-hour conversation with our columnist, Microsoft’s new chatbot said it would like to be human, had a desire…
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Even the most rebellious poets follow more rules than they might like to admit. A good poet understands grammatical norms…
New graphic for a handout I first posted in 2000. "Nominalization."
For decades, my mother collected paperbacks that contained a year's worth of Peanuts newspaper strips. I seem to remember each…
Many are wailing that this technology spells “the end of high school English,” meaning those classes where you read some books and…
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