Juliet Clark @semidetached@myna.social

I dreamt I was learning a language with two important words, wimak and mak. You used ‘mak’ in factual sentences where the basis for your assertion was anything you could touch (including taste) and ‘wimak’ if what you knew came from dreams, communication with ghosts, or intuition. Stuff you saw or heard was an unmarked case. People argued about whether tv or internet was wimak or not. #linguistdreams

Helpful cat is helping. Ca. 1943. https://viewer.slv.vic.gov.au/?entity=IE176113&mode=browse

I discovered the 1905 Burnham plan for San Francisco randomly saved with my old photos. I never appreciated his plan to FULLY cover the city (including the westside) with diagonal boulevards. At the time this was made many of the "existing" streets didn't exist yet (and some were never built and are part of the bay, still). Thanks to the earthquake the following year, and the desire to rebuild as quickly as possible, none of this was ever realized. #map #sanfrancisco #urbandesign #history

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

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

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.

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/