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  • Animal game

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    A story about family. « ‘A woman of few words,’ he smiled. ‘How refreshing.’ »

  • « My ghost, we do no batshit »

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    On the untranslatability of Ukrainian jokes

  • Beamer, Dressman, Bodybag

    Beamer, Dressman, Bodybag

    On the unexpected joys of Denglisch, Berlinglish & global Englisch. « My own language, made camp. »

  • Glossomania-mania

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    On language invention. To desire some other perfect language is at once to acknowledge and to overlook the miraculousness of what we have.

  • A recipe for word vomit

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    On pregnant silences, and how to abort them — via Jane Austen’s Lady Susan, Whit Stillman’s Love & Friendship and our own manners & morals.