I like to kid myself that this game helps me freshen my vocabulary and sharpen my spelling. Actually, I’m just addicted to it. “This game” is Wordscapes, a game you can download for Android or iPhones. There are also many sites with cheats and answers.…
In the interest of increasing the vocabulary of electronics users, which vocabulary some members and fans of print media say is becoming simple to the point of infantilization (ha! how do you like THAT word, me old luv?)… I lost my place…. Oh, yes: In…
My husband informs me that studies show the internet and tv are dumbing down the language–by which his source means simplifying or, as I read between the lines, dropping little-used words and adding new ones that the source doesn’t know. –Woah, how snotty was that?…
