Beyond the Rhetoric

Every month, I say thanks to the folks who keep the conversation going here on Beyond the Rhetoric. If it were not for the comments left by site visitors, I’d feel like I was talking in a vacuum. Many of the top thinkers for August look familiar, but it’s good to see at least one [...]

The grass always looks greener on the other side. It’s a saying that you hear all the time and the lesson that we’re supposed to learn is that it could all be an illusion. We’re led to believe that the greener pastures over yonder may not be all that green when you get up close. [...]

Sometimes, when something sounds wrong in English, it’s actually right. This can be terribly confusing for both native speakers and for people who are learning English as a second language. A great example of this is the word “moneys” (which is also spelled as “monies”). In the strictest sense, “moneys” is the plural form of [...]

“Not that everything you do will end up a masterpiece. But you should paint it like it could be.” For most of these Sunday Snippet entries that I post on Beyond the Rhetoric, I turn to relatively prominent figures like Albert Einstein. Some may be more obscure than others, but they are usually deemed to [...]

Some time back, I was tagged by Chang Guohua to do a post like this. In short, the goal is to highlight some of the older content that has been published on this blog over the years, offering a retrospective into the history of the site and what I’ve had to say. While Beyond the [...]