Since I’ve been talking about language, I thought I would add a few other changes I’ve noticed in our public speech. Here goes:
In the last 10 years, Americans have started to use the British “gone missing” or “went missing” to describe lost people or other vanished presences. We used to say “is missing” or just [...]
Archive for June, 2008
Changing Terms
Posted in culture, tagged buzzwords, new words on June 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Branding Life
Posted in culture, ideas, politics, tagged art, brand and branding, politics on June 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Much has been made recently of the “GOP brand” in the 2008 election– and the American “brand” in international public opinion, and the Red Sox “brand” in Boston, and the Chicago Symphony “brand” and its attendant difficulties, and the Sundance Film Festival “brand,” and no doubt the Eastern Pequot High School croquet club “brand” in [...]
Centro-Centrism
Posted in culture, tagged Localism, Urban Metropolis on June 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Many people have recently commented on the apparent paradox that while technology makes it possible to follow events and work from almost any spot in the world without delays in communication, rural areas and even small- to medium-size cities are in rapid decline all over the developed (and often the developing) world. At times it [...]
