Juliet Clark @semidetached@myna.social

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/

Micro manager. https://www.gettyimages.ie/detail/news-photo/woman-talking-on-phone-while-cat-is-sitting-on-desk-news-photo/515448480?phrase=white%20cat%20

Like pretty much anyone who ever heard his music or met him, we were gutted to learn yesterday that Hamish Kilgour has passed.

Soon after we moved into our building in Jersey City Hamish came and painted the inside of the very echo-friendly parabolic dome on the top floor. Here's a photo of Hamish and his work (courtesy of WFMU DJ Stork), along with some more recent photos of the dome. Sending love to his family, friends, and fans.

Penelope Fitzgerald, Innocence. This "party" scene starring a count, a monsignor, and three novelists is the funniest thing I've read in a bit.

Special from the depths of my download folder for you: classic tiny bat footage

"Fish market, Milford Haven docks, 1979" https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2016/oct/01/cat-snaps-jane-bowns-feline-photographs-cats

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