common speech

Identity politics, in common speech, is what other people do.

In a part of the world where biblical language often finds its way into common speech, some people speak of the week’s events in passionate floods of verbiage.

If you look at the way that choice occurs in common speech, both within the United States and in Ireland, it tends to co-occur with consumer things.

Some of these things are now technically feasible, but I don’t think they’re common: speech has not proven to be the flexible and faultless interface of our dreams.

The people still told the old stories in the common speech, and some of them were written down, although by whom or when we do not know.