You’re…your: The problem with hybrid speech-text communication
by Rashmee
Posted on January 5, 2022
Call me a pedant, but I notice when Muck Rack writes “hoards” (of employees) rather …
Read MoreGreen, blue…grue. The link between where you live and how you speak
by Rashmee
Posted on December 6, 2021
Words used to describe colour show a clear link between geography and vocabulary, according to …
Read MoreLinguistic code is a necessary oil that greases the modern world of work
by Rashmee
Posted on December 3, 2021
One of the funniest – and truest – pieces I recently read was Bartleby’s ruminations …
Read MoreJames Carville on ‘wokeness’ and the Democrats’ ‘messaging problem’
by Rashmee
Posted on July 14, 2021
/ LANGUAGE The woke agenda keeps James Carville, Bill Clinton’s former election manage, awake at …
Read MoreFrom 1979, this man kept tabs on the EU’s worsening verbal diarrhoea
by Rashmee
Posted on July 2, 2021
/ LANGUAGE Words matter, and the European Union shows just how much. In the years …
Read MoreIt’s no good Twitter and Facebook serving as an ad hoc international court
by Rashmee
Posted on June 25, 2021
/ LANGUAGE In January, Twitter banned the account of Donald Trump after tweets allegedly inciting …
Read More4 reasons to believe America may be in better political shape than we think
by Rashmee
Posted on June 18, 2021
/ LANGUAGE In his final column (June 17), The New York Times’s departing long-time columnist …
Read MoreBoris and that ‘special relationship’
by Rashmee
Posted on June 11, 2021
/ LANGUAGE Boris Johnson, it turns out, isn’t overly fond of the phrase “special relationship”.…
Read MoreYasser Arafat is arrested in India for pro-Palestinian FB post. Go figure
by Rashmee
Posted on June 4, 2021
/ LANGUAGE Here’s a quite remarkable story. In India, a 32-year-old man posted a pro-Palestine …
Read MoreIn three countries, the war over tax
by Rashmee
Posted on May 28, 2021
/ LANGUAGE I thought of linguistics professor George Lakoff and his theories on framing when …
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Rashmee has lived and worked in several countries in the past decade, including Afghanistan, India, Haiti, Tunisia, the UAE, US and UK