Check Your Usage of "Check Your Privilege"

We've Been Told that Different Languages Create Different Worldviews. They Don't.

How Two Inoffensive Words Became the Most Inflammatory Phrase in English

Multilinguals Have Multiple Personalities

How Capital Letters Became Internet Code for Yelling

Gawker is Trying to Use 'Adult' Language. Good Luck to Them.

Why Do We Say That Our Phones and Computers 'Die'?

Sheryl Sandberg Is Right About the Word 'Bossy.' This Data Proves It.

"Actually" Is the Most Futile, Overused Word on the Internet

Americans Have Started Saying "Queue." Blame Netflix.

Trigger Happy

I've Discovered the Internet's Most Internet Sentence, and Your an Idiot if You Disagree

The Unintended Implications of Obama’s Syria Statements

Let's Stop Pretending That French Is an Important Language

There's No Such Thing as a "Real Man"

I Wasn't Born This Way. I Choose to Be Gay.

A Gender-Neutral Pronoun Won't Work in English. We're Stuck With "She" and "He."

I Can See You Typing

Internet-Speak is Improving English Because Empathy

How to Talk to a 'Brocialist'