"now" ? (View Post)

This is a great book, incidentally, if you like popular linguistics and language and you spend time on the internet. Strongly recommended. (I am an Old Internet Person by her classification.) (View Post)

There are no rules, but there are conventions and consensus that build up among language-using communities. If you deviate from the consensus in the group of people you talk to, then you can expect t… (View Post)

If you read RAIB safety reports (which thankfully are almost always near-misses and no-injury minor incidents), "not enough staff to properly cover the work so maintenance backlogs build up and … (View Post)

If the pilot does everything right in the critical half-second or so then you get to fall like a sycamore seed, which is slightly less awful. (View Post)