Why Does Everyone Care So Much about This Huawei Issue?
The Huawei case matters to Canadians I don’t know about “everyone,” but I can tell you why I, as a Canadian, “care so much about the Huawe...
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Education is one of the Trump campaign's important positions Until November 9, 2016, I never imagined there would be any reason to co... -
Education can't solve economic inequality When my guru forwarded Nick Hanauer 's article in The Atlantic , " Better Schools W... -
I asked a version of this question on Quora , naively and mistakenly assuming that I would launch a groundswell of support to stop people... -
Money isn't just pixel dust! In an earlier post I described money as “pixel dust.” I was being cute—way too cute! Sometimes an analo... -
Tense versus aspect Some languages do not have verb tenses. The English language has only one tense: the simple past tense, also known ... -
Schlegel coined the term These days, the concept of "romantic irony" is particularly difficult to grasp for a number of reasons. ... -
To Owe Is to Own Do you remember this line: “So Romeo would, were he not Romeo called, / Retain that dear perfection which he owes / W... -
The "Ball of string" theory I believe in the “ball of string” theory of learning English. Imagine that the English language is ... -
The Irony of English grammar The irony of English grammar is that we impose it most on the people who need it the least: second- or fore... -
Descriptive versus prescriptive grammar I still haven’t recovered from the revelation that “grammatical mistake” isn’t a mistake. Eng...