I've seen a t-shirt [1] that looks as though it's going involve a loud morality-police tongue-clicking but which jukes instead into a loud language-police tongue-clicking
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Logophily: Creativity and Synthesis [1]
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BY JOEL PATTON
I began to think of composition as com-position: stuff put with stuff.
LOGOPHILY: WRITING, IDEAS, LEGO [1]
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BY JOEL PATTON
I played with Lego bricks [2] quite a lot, when I was a kid.
LOGOPHILY: A REINTRODUCTION
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BY JOEL PATTON
In this column, I'll discuss etymology, writing, grammar, the Scunthorpe problem, birds, culinary terminology [2], dactyls, pterodactyls, polydactyly, polyamory, amour-propre, the Hammer interjection proper, “proper” diction [3], dictionary definitions, split infinitives [4]...