By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 19/03/2026I'm a writer, so of *course* I care about words! But I'm a writer, so I also think that words are improved by their malleability, duality and nuance. 1/ 1398
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 19/03/2026If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: pluralistic.net/2026/03/19/j... 2/pluralistic.netPluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period. 141
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 19/03/2026This is one of the things I love about being a native English speaker - this glorious mongrel language of ours is full of *extremely* weird words, like "cleave," which means its own opposite ("to join together" and "to cut apart"). 3/ 1140
