by Brandy Cross | Mar 29, 2023 | Uncategorized
I have no subjective experience of your subjective experience of yourself. The person you are to you likely does not exist in the same way to me. It doesn’t matter how much I love, value, treasure, esteem my experience of you, I do not know your experience...
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by Brandy Cross | Jan 25, 2023 | Blog
Most of us have, by dint of a slip of the tongue or while over explaining something or other, managed to say something that ended up being ridiculously repetitive or tautological. Think of phrases like “fortified fort“. You say it, take a second, and realize how...
by Brandy Cross | Aug 22, 2022 | Blog
Or why what you think you’re saying means more than what you’re saying In colloquial usage, pragmatic means to be practical, to deal with things sensibly and realistically with all practical concerns taken into consideration. While I rather love this form...
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by Brandy Cross | Aug 15, 2022 | Blog
Edward Elmer Smith is a (contemporarily) mostly completely unknown science-fiction writer, his claim to fame being over 200 short-ish stories and novellas published in the iconic Sci-Fi magazines of the 1915s and 20s, namely IF Worlds of Science Fiction and Amazing...
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by Brandy Cross | Mar 11, 2022 | Blog
Not a clickbait title or anything ™ The Overton window is the concept that there’s a widow of acceptable opinions/policies which are held by the mainstream of any given generation, but which moves on a generation-by-generation basis. Historically the...
by Brandy Cross | Feb 21, 2022 | Blog
Metaphor is the concept of a word or phrase which stands for an abstract concept. Sort of like using words as iconography – this one thing is like this other thing, not because they are the same but because it makes sense to understand the one in the context of the...
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by Brandy Cross | Feb 5, 2022 | Blog
Or, what is polysemy and how does it work? This blog is about the concept of polysemy and how surprisingly common it is in the simplest of words. And as an example, I’m going to use the unassuming word “over”. So, Polysemy – say it aloud, it rolls very...
by Brandy Cross | Jan 14, 2022 | Blog
Few words could be more dichotomous than “daddy”. Why is that? Often we create words and they go into a category to define a subject. Subject object categorization. This word defines this category of things. Think about when you see little kids playing....
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by Brandy Cross | Apr 12, 2021 | Blog, Grammar
Political correctness – either defined as a draconian attempt at thought and speech control, or an egalitarian movement to use language in ways which are inclusive, intersectional, and respectful, depending, of course, on which quarter of the political compass...
by Brandy Cross | Mar 21, 2021 | Blog
The Ridiculous Application of Metonymy & Pragmatics In every culture, there are standards for politeness, what is okay, what is not okay, and why. In many instances, “politeness culture” is good. In most cases, the term “politeness” is a colloquialism,...
