Often we think of poetry as focused on expressing the emotions and experiences of our individual lives, immediately, intensely, distilled to the essence of the experience we recall. Poetry can do that. But it can do other things as well.…
Have you ever noticed that a small detail triggers a memory or seemingly unrelated subject? Memories appear roughly 400 milliseconds after the triggering exposure, according to research reported on the Cognitive Neuroscience Society’s blog. This research aims to shed…
I’m thinking about ambiguity in language and I blame credit Grammar Girl, and her podcast on crash blossoms http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/fun-with-crash-blossoms based on text by Gretchen McCullough of All Things Linguistic http://allthingslinguistic.com. Crash blossoms can be funny or disturbing, but what they have in common…
