Language

Linguist Geoffrey Nunberg discusses the word hacker.

Linguist Geoff Nunberg on the difference between irony and sarcasm.

Linguist Geoff Nunberg considers the difficulties we’re having talking about the new millennium.

Linguist Geoff Nunberg on the word "virtual" as In virtual reality.

Linguist Geoff Nunberg considers how new-age psycho-babble has made It's way Into the corporate room.

Linguist Geoff Nunberg tells us what words he would like to see us get rid of for the year 2000.

Enter Linguist Geoff Nunberg on the epic Anglo-Saxon poem "Beowulf" -- which is considered to be the origin of English literature and which has been newly translated by poet Seamus Heaney.

Linguist Geoff Nunberg reflects on the decade of the suffix "thon" as in walkathon, bowlathon. . .etc.

Linguist Geoff Nunberg on the dot com craze started by the Internet.

The Kansas board of Education decided recently to leave evolution out if its required curriculum. Linguist Geoff Nunberg examines how the language of the controversy has changed over the century.