But that’s about to change. Here’s the source of our troubles: We have been inflicting intense suffering on some very important words, forcing them to associate with meanings that they abhor.

A typical United States generational beef about clothing, and some poetry, seems to have given us a word that today has one ...

This is because I have studied the word carefully, and I have come to believe it is the single-most-important word in human language. I acknowledge that this is a pretty strong assertion!