Posts tagged language

Bruce Schneier is cross that ‘crypto’ no longer means what he wants it to mean.

People sometimes ask which is the best Lisp dialect? That’s a category error, and here’s why.

In the old, more innocent days of the internet — the days when people naïvely assumed that nazis were figures from a dark past, fading slowly into history — people who were very pedantic about prescriptive rules of grammar were often called ‘grammar nazis’. We did not think, then, that grammar nazis might be unconsciously encouraging actual nazis. But I think they were, and are.

I sometimes make the mistake of reading the letters pages of newspapers.