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Comics are not mentioned on this page, although all the aspects of digital texts he mentions can easily be applied to the medium, whether print or digital. Also throughout, he seems to see print in an alphabetic determinism. Shape poetry is the farthest he reaches to visual language in print. He could have gone farther. He says "no decoding needed" the more visual the text. There is indeed decoding.

Well that's a surprise. One of my professors is in here! :D

I need to take a break. The heartthrob is too much.

Again, I find myself humbled at the details of Jewish law that consider and uphold the context of every situation in its lexicon rather than proclaiming an overarching ideology onto others.

Adventures in word etymology through a linguistic perspective abound. I am humbled.

The heavy adherence to text is the densest I've ever come across in a graphic novel, but taking my time, I'm seeing a compelling subtle narrative on the shifting paradigm of early 19th century American Jewry.

Infusing scientific research with "common sense." Bullshit.

This text identifies the methods of standardization currently imposed in the school system and doesn't feel the need to agree with it, constantly favoring scientific evidence that focuses on children's language acquisition. On topics such as phonemic awareness, it follows a descriptivist approach in an inclusive manner that also supports differentiation and variation. This book is a linguistic badass.

"Basically, our brains are on drugs pretty much all the time....with games, learning is the drug."

"He wanted to know about science. It's just that all the science had gotten filtered out before it reached him. Our cultural motifs, our educational system, our communications media had failed this man. What the society permitted to trickle through was mainly pretense and confusion. It had never taught him how to distinguish real science from cheap imitation." One of those paragraphs you keep rereading to yourself.

"There are so many ways to disappear in this world...by land, in the sea, kidnapped by thieves, set upon by vagabonds, forced into battles or chained to galleys, vanquished by gambling. And of course...disease of all sorts. For what good was a doctor who couldn't cure himself?" (O'Melveny 66)

"The idea of the person and the heart of the person--those are wholly different landscapes."

"Locating responsibility in a reified 'society' and placing it in the distant past ensures that people in power need not change their current behavior."