Lexicon Valley
Episodes
Untuning the String
05 Mar 2012
Contributed by Lukas
In the early 1960s, amid a nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union, a burgeoning civil rights movement here at home, and a dawning countercultural rev...
Jumpin' Salty in The O
27 Feb 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Kathryn Stockett’s dialogue-heavy The Help, a novel that was adapted into an Oscar-winning movie, caused a stir over whether a white writer should d...
Consider the Lamppost
21 Feb 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Do you flinch when someone says “between you and I”? Textbook English tells us that it’s categorically ungrammatical, and yet it’s arguably mo...
A Bundle of Faggots
13 Feb 2012
Contributed by Lukas
On the history and future of the other F-word. X: @lexiconvalleyFacebook: facebook.com/LexiconValleyWebsite: booksmartstudios.com/LexiconValley Learn...
A Sin of Which None Is Guilty
06 Feb 2012
Contributed by Lukas
We all learned that you’re not supposed to end a sentence with a preposition. But from where did this alleged rule come? And why does it encumber us...