Tag: texting

• Deliver your words not by number but by weight

  Even though my periodic conceit is that of a feuilleteur, I find I am still drawn to occasional texting. Sometimes there is simply no need for verbosity -the information that I am late but enroute, does not require an essay to explain. And yet, even the word ‘sorry’ prefixing the text, may fail to express […]

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  October 9, 2019

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  BBC Future, culture, emoji, Emojipedia, interpretations, Keith Broni, smart phone, societal lenses, texting, upside-down face Emoji, Vyvyan Evans

• Texting LIVE

  You know, I love being old -you get to learn so many things. For example, I found out that you should probably not admit you’re old at parties because it leaves you open to stuff, and not all of it is nice. Personally, I go in disguise, although we all have to find the door […]

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  August 15, 2018

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  Age, BBC Culture, emoji, emoticons, James Harbeck, LIVE, Live Internet Vernacular English, pidgin, speech, texting, vernacular, written language

• Staying in Touch

  In the endless dark of night, belief that there will be a morning is sometimes all that sustains us. Hope springs eternal in the human breast, as Alexander Pope declared in one of his essays -and that is occasionally all there is. When Medicine fails, the understandable temptation is to turn to alternatives; when inductive […]

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  August 15, 2015

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  Alexander Pope, alternative medicine, Canadian Medical Association Journal, cell phone, Cleanse, colonics, deductive reasoning, detox, enema, Hope, Hope springs eternal, inductive reasoning, medicine, probiotics, retention enema, Scientific method, texting, toxins