From allosexual to zaza and zir, terms you won’t find in your Funk & Wagnalls
Tag: Language
Posted inCity Life
Think you know your Chicago underworld slang?
A quiz on some of the less obvious entries in a 1967 police-training dictionary
Posted inMusic
Mnek finds the queer heart of R&B on Language
One of an emerging generation of queer R&B artists, Mnek (pronounced em-en-EE-kay) takes an approach to his music that’s closer to mainstream radio pop than that of idiosyncratic performers such as Serpentwithfeet, Le1f, or even Frank Ocean. This has some downsides: on his 2018 album, Language (Virgin EMI), he defaults to pleasant but undistinguished balladry […]
Posted inBlogs
Justin Hayford’s apology for his Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner review
“I could have conveyed the horror of the stage moment without quoting the word at all.”
Posted inBest of Chicago
Chicago’s diversity is legible on its signs
Signs speak to the character and composition of neighborhoods and communities.
Posted inBlogs
Ten things that would make Internet text “cool” again
Some half-baked ideas for making text more exciting on the Internet, or something. Danger! Web experts ONLY.
Posted inReader
If I’d Known What You Were Up To, I Would’ve Shot You Down
I know you are but what am I? Stupid love! Love’s stupid.
Posted inBlogs
Chicago-based shopping site Language is no more
Language, the Wicker Park boutique that went online-only a year ago, closes up shop completely.
Posted inBlogs
Lost in the tag clouds
Hillary Clinton, Bobby Kennedy, and the tag-cloud theory of mass communication.
Posted inBlogs
Are you a disabled American Indian, or a handicapped Native American?
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but I just can’t get words out of my head.
Posted inNews & Politics
More Than Words Can Say
The Language of Gestures, as Translated by U. of C. Psycholinguist David McNeill