"I Resonate With That" [NAILS ON CHALKBOARD]

She put one true word after another and put the words in the portal. All at once they were not true, not as true as she could have made them.

The acrid views expressed about colloquial speech in online comments sections today is a relatively new view of language, fostered by a combination of bourgeois sensibility and the dominance of unchanging documents such as dictionaries, both of which subtly but powerfully distract us from the dynamic reality of language’s essential mechanisms.

I’m obnoxiously fastidious about language, particularly the way people speak, and I have very little patience for vocalized pauses such as um and like. Fung could compete on the international stage when it came to vocal filler.