In 1975, Annie Dillard won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-fiction for her book Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Amazon|Bookshop). A few years later, she wrote an essay in The New York Times with advice for writers and artists, calling on them to observe...
A listener asks whether English has a word for buying something and then using it for a lesser or unintended purpose, such as turning a treadmill into a clothes rack. There may not be a single English term for that, but the Japanese expression mikka...
