Announcing Johnson: A language blog from The Economist
June 15, 2010
My newest project: a revival of The Economist’s 1990s column, Johnson, now in blog form, to discuss language in all its glory.
My newest project: a revival of The Economist’s 1990s column, Johnson, now in blog form, to discuss language in all its glory.
“Why do people keep calling Elena Kagan a ‘blank slate’? … If you really consciously choose a metaphor, pick it up off that shelf and swing it a few times saying ‘yes, this one’, and then use it over and over, it had better be a good one…”