Tag: grammar

How do you do? How did you do? How do you do that differently?

December 29, 2025

There is a world of difference in many usages of the verb, ‘to do’, that all live depend on cultural assumptions. It is rapidly becoming archaic to use the term ‘How do you do?’, roughly meaning meaning ‘how are you?’, but possibly extrapolated to ‘in the doing that constitutes your life, how do you assess … More How do you do? How did you do? How do you do that differently?

“It’s not wholly unlike seeing people talk about Faerie”. ‘Do you ever see wild animals?’ is a question trapped in the net of  binaries. This blog takes as its case study Amal El-Mohtar’s ‘The River Has Roots’.

December 6, 2025

“It’s not wholly unlike seeing people talk about Faerie”. [1] ‘Do you ever see wild animals?’ is a question trapped in the net of binaries. This blog takes as its case study Amal El-Mohtar (2025) ‘The River Has Roots’, London, Arcadia, Quercus Books. ‘Wild animals’ possibly don’t exist except as the ‘other’ to two norms … More “It’s not wholly unlike seeing people talk about Faerie”. ‘Do you ever see wild animals?’ is a question trapped in the net of  binaries. This blog takes as its case study Amal El-Mohtar’s ‘The River Has Roots’.