I've set up a new department here: The Department of Arts & Letters. It doesn't so much replace the Department of Grammar as augment it. After all, grammar represents only one facet of communication. All sorts of elements affect how a message reaches its audience, from grammar to presentation to location. The Department of Arts and Letters will explore not only what a message says, but how. Most of the time, this will take the form of asking what (if anything) a given messenger may have been thinking... read more
