Metaphorically Speaking
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TIME.comix talks to David B., author of 'Epileptic'
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Reader Sunaina Yadav shares her experiences.
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It's amazing how easy it is to get lazy and comfortable and accept things as they seem to be instead of trying to see them as they are. That's true, I'm sorry to say, even for someone like me who urges eternal vigilance and makes a living writing about financial fiascos.
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Popular wisdom is often an oxymoron.
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A new book helps adults talk to kids about the birds, the bees and Britneyâs underwear in an age when sexual innuendo and provocative images seem to be everywhere.Â
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By JAKE COYLE  It's old news that e-mail and texting expressions like "LOL" and "OMG" have made inroads into language. Beyond the new slang, though, Internet companies and Web sites have formed a particular grammatical and graphic style of their own.
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Tycho:  The first part of this strip is from an actual conversation.  I'm pretty sure he was joking, though.
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Being of sound mind and broken foot, I used terms my husband grasped.
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When things are bad, itâs natural to look ahead. Perhaps thatâs why we hear those phrases so often from politicians, sports figures and others in times of trouble.
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This innovative software gets students excited about words - improving reading, writing, and communication skills. Search results are presented in thought-provoking Thinkmap visual display.
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By Prasanna Raman  * ON the editorial floor where I sit, often a frog's croaking is heard. The first time I heard it, my colleagues and I thought a frog was moonlighting as a journalist here. But, it was just the journalist's cell phone's ringtone.
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Mistakes prompt a demand for grammar to be policed.
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IN THE run-up to tomorrowâs first presidential debate between George W Bush and Senator John Kerry, I came across an interesting speech the other day.
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Hyperbole is the poetry of marketing. It is designed to capture your attention and tickle your imagination -- to seduce you.
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Tycho: Sorry about that. Kiko digests the audio files for that, and I forgot that there President's Day was a holiday that people took seriously. Before today, I was not aware just how seriously Kiko took the concept of presidency. Also, I fixed an offensive and aggressively stupid typographical error in the post above. Now, it's only aggressively stupid in the ways I originally intended.(CW)TB
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It sure sounded like an insult. A dismissive dig, at least. The sort of thing Gilbert Arenas loves to hear so he can store it away for extra motivation.