1. How can a tiny grammatical choice change the persuasive force of an opinion?

2. Why does present tense make a speaker sound more confident, and why does that confidence matter for persuasion?

3. What does verb tense reveal about the difference between sharing an experience and making a claim?

• Why do some languages have words for things while others do not?

• Does it matter that English doesn’t have words to express certain ideas?

• Are there certain ideas or experiences for which “there are no words”?

• How can we tell whether a sentence was written by AI or a person?

• Does it matter whether an email was written from a unique, creative human brain, or simple formed by data scraped off the web?

• How can we understand our creative ability to write and speak as being separate from what a machine can do?