I would recommend checking out the works of Mikhail Bakhtin,
particularly Speech Genres and Other Late Essays and The Dialogic Imagination.
He’s a Russian literary critic/theorist/linguist who may well have
pioneered a lot of the understanding of …

Dear Sars,
Long-time reader, first-time writer. And it’s the former that’s the problem.
Oh, it’s not that I’m dissing your (high-quality and hilarious) site — it’s that I can’t tear myself away from my computer. I think …

Sars and “Order,”
I have what I consider to be the best gyn in the world, Rachel Villanueva. I absolutely adore her and I recommend her to everyone. I am 26 and not married, so my …

I think the biggest thing you can do for an intern is to give them structured, balanced (some good/some negative) feedback. The ability to use both types of information to improve your work performance will …

Sars,
Re: the busty bridesmaid: Honestly, my H cups and I say your reader should ask her sister to consider a more bra-friendly style. I’ve seen several weddings where the bridesmaids wear differing styles (from the …

Dear Sarah:
My favorite website for such things is:
http://www.katespaperie.com/store/productView.php
They carry various stationery lines, including Crane, and their own line is lovely. They have shops in NYC.
I love the stuff from these folks:
http://www.wastenotpaper.com/cgi-bin/waste/index.html
The website is solely to …

Okay, I need some advice from a generational peer on this situation. I’m 26 and I’m starting to have all kinds of icky, very adult realizations about myself and my life. Chief among these is …

Hi Sars,
In response to “Ow, my aching ass” the best thing I can think of for avoiding sore bike ass is biking shorts, the ones with the padded butt. They sort of feel like a …

Hi Sars,
The show your reader is thinking of is, I think, Hull High.
http://www.jumptheshark.com/h/hullhigh.htm
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098826/
http://epguides.com/HullHigh/
I’ve never seen or heard of it, but I get paid to find things on the
Internet (essentially) and, like any good researcher, can’t …

Dearest Sars,
I tried to pare it down as much as possible, but this doesn’t just involve one boy, it involves two.And they’re twins.
A couple of weeks ago, I went out with B, a guy I …