Psycho Babble
A blog about language with posts each Thursday by Jessica Love, a postdoctoral fellow in the department of psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her article about pronouns, “They Get to Me,” appeared in our Spring 2010 issue.
Should Two Constructions Diverge - Feb. 16, 2012
In his poem “Dust of Snow,” Robert Frost writes that a snow dusting Has given my heart / A change of mood rather than Has given a change of mood / To my heart.
Previous posts
- Should Two Constructions Diverge
- Submissive Sentences
- isthistytelhardtoreed
- What Actually Works
- When Words Are Neighbors
- Spelling and the Mind
- When Rosemary Should Be Rosy and Merry
- When Characters Speak Off the Page
- And I’m Like, Read This!
- The Grammarian Was a He
- The Spaghetti with a Dark Past
- A Cocktail Conundrum
- Nullified
- The Magazine Ran with Ink and Columns
- The Accented Among Us
- If It Talks Like the Truth
- Speech in Action
- Nailing It
- Aliens in the Mind
- The Lion, the Yurt, and the Xbox
- The Elephant in the Room
- Parse This
- Tyler Is Setting Up a Tent
- When the Upshot Is a Downer
- This Column Needs Edited
