linguistics

The Rules We Didn't Know We Followed

I was sitting in the Chronicle office at six in the morning, going through transcripts from last week's Spoke Council session, when I noticed something I'd been noticing for years without ever really seeing it. Councilor Demir was arguing with Leah Okafor about the microreactor maintenance schedule. The argument itself was unremarkable — they argue about everything — but the language was. Demir, whose first language is Turkish, said something like: "The cooling system, we should inspect it befo

Kira Tanaka