Both convey the same basic message: You think the order should be ... ("Just" never means "just" because "just" is just a ...

“In other words, how we say something ... and choose the expression that matches your intended message,” she says. “For example, if you want to convey energy and enthusiasm, allow your ...

In other words, they convey confidence. But speaking with power and confidence isn’t something you’re born with, it’s something you can learn, says Jonah Berger, a marketing professor at the ...

Text effects offer the option to animate words in ways that can help convey a message, whether you want something to pop by having it explode or hint at your nerves by having a word jitter.

Longer words tend to carry more information, according to research by a team of cognitive scientists. It's a suggestion that might sound intuitively obvious, until you start to think about it.

To the editor: The view that good intentions don’t excuse a teacher reading the n-word in class perpetuates the power of the word. It does not help overcome the past and present attitudes that ...

Other tricky, yet common words are ‘assure’, ‘ensure’ and ‘insure’. Too often, especially in speech, you are likely to hear someone say ‘insure you deliver the message without fail”.