AI threatens to undermine the unspoken norms of writing and communication that guide our daily lives. Here are some proposals to address that development.

But it was all a mystery.  Here we are,And there we go:--but where?                                       (Byron, Don Juan V.39)Look there, look there, King Lear implores, pointing to the dead Cordelia.  We know she's dead, but he wants her to "stay a little," which is so much less to ask, in this final scene, than his icy, impossible demand in the first scene that she "mend her speech a little."

So the funny thing about Shakespeare, you will have noticed, is that there are a lot of editions of his plays. A lot. A LOT.