Disorder of a Man of Letters — Xah Belles-lettres. From the haughty emotions of lexicon, stylistic concerns, decipherment of grammar and idioms, linguisticality, literature, and logicality. 2026-05-05T09:57:53-07:00 Xah Lee http://xahlee.org/ http://xahlee.org/wordy/lit/blog.html http://xahlee.org/favicon.svg © 2026, Xah Lee urn:uuid:b59eee16-d5c1-41bb-8831-110b9f321f96 2026-05-05T09:57:53-07:00

2026-05-05

• Curly single quote vs the apostrophe

urn:uuid:01e28c28-e38d-4979-bb65-5fecc4a34eeb 2026-05-02T12:27:55-07:00

2026-05-02

• etymology of thumbnail and icon

urn:uuid:c249e8da-d167-4b27-8429-eb264a7d20ae 2026-03-26T13:59:45-07:00

2026-03-26

• the emoji dilemma (2024)

• Poem 再别康橋 Goodbye Cambridge (2016)

• What is Mystics (2024)

urn:uuid:077965b6-185a-4e59-8e27-8956514aecd1 2026-03-25T11:47:27-07:00

2026-03-25

• 常用汉字 Most Used Chinese Chars

urn:uuid:9834c034-6b5e-44c9-8202-78f58616419f 2026-03-25T11:47:22-07:00

2026-03-22

• Poetry: The Writ of My Heart (Xah Lee)
• Poetry: petty character trekking in the swamp (2024)
• Poetry: xah discord poem (2023)

urn:uuid:677b8696-59ce-418f-ae75-3f208e4ad393 2026-03-05T17:18:43-08:00

2026-03-05

• Logical positivism, analytic philosophy

urn:uuid:878ca639-fd34-4056-9cb9-f865cf9b0a08 2026-02-28T12:31:42-08:00

2026-02-26

• Does British convention of sentence case for title ends in a period (2026)