If you just let him know you want him to go on the potty, or anything, he's miles away.

And if you want to hear “cryptobabble” – crusts talk all the time, she says—“you have to be very quiet and put your ear right next to the ground. You’ll hear this faint murmuring.”

One scientist's language spread is another's glottophagy. There are a number of partly overlapping perspectives, which can be regarded as concerned primarily with progression or regression.

Witte and Reinicke argue that the private sector's integration with a “trisectoral network” of states, international organizations, and civil society actors increases public policy's responsiveness to a changing environment.