Juliet Clark @semidetached@myna.social

The 1976 board game Newsdesk (aka Reporter) came with a plastic Telex

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2033/reporter

Today I offer you the following excellent cat name, free of charge: Intrusive Thought

#WishIWasHere. #YouShouldComeWithMeNow

Since around 2007 I've been cultivating self-storage facility, lost property office, secondhand shop, fleamarket & closed provincial museum as metaphors for my rubbish memory and bits & bobs of identity--depositories of the self. These places are envisaged as littered yet empty, open but somehow inaccessible. But I notice I've carefully avoided placing the abjected items in the charity shop. That's the true act of suppression.

#WIWH #Memoir #AntiMemoir

Good luck with those resolutions and intentions. My word for the first week of 2023 is PESSIMISM. https://nancyfriedman.typepad.com/away_with_words/2023/01/word-of-the-week-pessimism.html

I always enjoy the posts @stancarey writes about Irish English. Grand. Codding. Culchie. And more.

#linguistics #IrishEnglish #WordNerd #dialect

https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2022/12/19/10-more-words-from-irish-english-dialect/

The German language has quite a few animalistic verbs:

fuchsen ("to fox") = to annoy
hechten ("to pike") = to dive
reihern ("to heron") = to puke
dackeln ("to dachshund") = to walk slowly
aalen ("to eel") = to bask
vögeln ("to bird") = to have sex
einigeln ("to hedgehog in") = to curl up
hamstern ("to hamster") = to hoard
schlängeln ("to snake") = to wriggle
stieren ("to bull") = to goggle
unken ("to toad") = to gripe, augur doom
tigern ("to tiger") - to walk tigerishly

Animaljoy our language!

Toshiro Mifune is looking rather fly in his Christmas sweater.

My son has been asking a lot of questions this Christmas season, and I'm worried it might be the last year he believes that Bitcoin is real.

football as a hangover from the days when there was nothing else to do in your village except wait for Bela Tarr to get down off the bus one afternoon & start filming Satantango

Lynne Murphy has an interesting new post about the similarities and differences between "go west" in British English and "go south" in American English. https://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/2022/12/go-westsouth.html #etymology

I hope he gets to lie in state in the LA Zoo parking lot. The line would go to Burbank.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-12-17/p22-obituary-celebrity-mountain-lion-cougar-puma-griffith-park-california

People laugh at the idea that 500K a year is middle class, but as you move into higher income brackets, your needs change. It's no longer about food and shelter, it's about staging mock sea battles on your man-made lake for 20,000 guests to win the favor of the Tsar

New: A 21-year antedating of interjectional "shit", which I wrote up for the Strong Language blog:

https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2022/12/13/interjectional-shit-in-a-drunken-1844-diary-entry/