“Slang creates a lot of new nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs,” said Anne Curzan here on Lingua Franca “Slang creates a lot of new nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs,” said Anne Curzan here on ...

On November 10, the Moon will align closely with Jupiter in the sky, creating a conjunction. But this isn’t just a pretty show in the sky. When the lunar and jovial energies combine, we get a moment ...

Anyone who reads college papers — and who pays attention to the punctuation therein — will recognize a fairly recent trend of students following a sentence-opening conjunction with a comma. As in: ...