Daily Archives: August 24, 2009

To the Editor– I feel compelled to defend the fine art of mispronunciation after reading William Greenway’s article (“Yeets and Kates,” September/October 1999). Any living language, even Greenway’s fictional mummy tongue, needs to be malleable. What the author proposes instead … Continue reading →

Existentialists have gained prestige by talking of dread, care, anguish, guilt, boredom. Now it is true that they talk about such things; but they talk of them technically. I do not mean this as a reproach. I can see no … Continue reading →