Mary Kay Ash said famously, “If you think you can, you can. If you think you can’t you’re right.” Cognitive scientists continue to explore how the brain processes negative versus positive sentence ...

Let's go to town and see if we can't buy some new T-shirts. A question from Kypros in the UK: Why is it that many English people use a negative construction in the following example when a positive ...

Our eyes, gestures, and tone bring us together in a more profound way than words alone. It’s why we look hopefully toward the return of in-person, face-to-face connection. Mary Kay Ash said famously, ...

There are a few rules that are drummed so incessantly into our heads in school that we cannot help but internalize them. One is "No sentence fragments!" Actually, that should be "Don't use sentence ...