Robert Lane Greene
Robert Lane Greene is an international correspondent for The Economist. His book about language, "You Are What You Speak", is out now.
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Recent articles by Robert Lane Greene:
- FACEBOOK: LIKE?
- HEY DUDE
- POLITICS AND METAPHORS
- ICONOGRAPHY, AUTHENTICITY AND SWEAT
- BEDSIDE TABLE: WORDS, WORDS, WORDS
- WHICH IS THE BEST LANGUAGE TO LEARN?
- THE Q&A: ARIKA OKRENT, LINGUIST, NEUROSCIENTIST, KLINGON EXPERT
- THE SEETHING GENIUS OF "GET YOUR WAR ON"
- THE RISE OF "AWESOME"
- LITTLE BIG WORDS
- ON LANGUAGE NERDS AND NAGS
- DON'T MAKE ME BEG
- APPLE V GOOGLE
- OMG, ETC
- SHOULD YOU TEACH YOUR KIDS CHINESE?
- GO PINKER YOURSELF
- When adverbs aren't adverbs, and swearing isn't language
Comment of the moment
quote It's often seemed to me that Shakespeare might well have been a simply brilliant editor as well as a beyond-extraordinary writer