Similarly, to take twenty-five years of free-form, cross-cutting social, political, economic, and historical writing growing out of work at a single, unstandard, American institution and isolate it as an era in such writing — a stage, a phase, a line of thought — is to pursue an agenda, take a position, state a case.

Even keysmash, that haphazard mashing of fingers against keyboard to signal a feeling so intense that you can't possibly type real words, has patterns. A typical keysmash might look like asdljklgafdlik. or asdfkfjas;dfs—quite distinct from, say, a cat walking across the keyboard […]

Böriev believed that foreign words should be subordinated to the rules of the Turkmen language: When we borrow foreign words, it is essential to take the foreign root and Turkmenize these words.

[…]Do that good miſcheefe, which may make this Iſland / Thine owne for euer, and I thy Caliban, / For aye thy foot-licker.