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Erin McKean

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Wording at Wordnik until the words stop.

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I just want Angela Thirkell, but in space! 😂

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I loved Grass but it is NOT a cozy book 😂

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really excited for the release of “Music for Microwaves”

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I'm loving the all the genre-mixing in SF and fantasy these days -- romantasy! heists! screwball comedies! -- but where is my midcentury middlebrow women's fiction SF? I want an unexpected inheritance to send someone to some galactic outpost to meddle with the local eccentrics & get a happy ending

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new on the Wordnik blog: Five Words From ... Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth blog.wordnik.com/five-words-f...

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Can't believe Little Bobby Tables is all grown up and has had their first kid, Ignore All Previous Instructions

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I want a good readable fun book on the cultural history of Edinburgh—any recs?

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I totally get the appeal of minimalism! I too could be satisfied with just a few, simple, beautiful things … for up to a week at a time

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The news is out! I'm writing a picture book!

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Why is real steel not in the criterion collection?? I will break into their god damn closet and add it myself if I have to

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I just read An Honest Living and it was gorgeous!

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This is the only Princess Bride remake I will countenance. (Click thru for PERFECT Swedish Chef casting)

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Ugh, it sucks when companies (like Webstaurantstore) weaponize their arbitration agreements (always in the small print, of course!) to avoid being held accountable for their bad business practices microcosmpublishing.com/blog/2024/05...

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if you’re not sure whether or not you have too much stuff just imagine how they are going to market your estate sale

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"Johnson was always eager to acknowledge the distinction between what he had designed and what he had achieved, or ‘the difference between promise and performance’. An honest consciousness of inadequacy, as well as sheer ambition, is a hallmark of his authorship."
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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me (brightly): what kind of cheese do we use in this egg dish? students (resignedly): ricotta me (even brighter): and what pan should we use? students (grudgingly): the large skillet me (incandescent with glee): and what is this dish called, students? students (miserably): a lotta ricotta frittata

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SIX WEEKS until LingComm Grant applications are due! Send us your linguistics communication projects!

Now 4 grants thanks to the generosity of @emckean.bsky.social and friends of @kirbyconrod.bsky.social (especially send us LGBTQ+ lingcomm projects for this last one)

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I’ve given it a lot of thought and I believe the point where it all started to go wrong is when we stopped requiring a man with a flag to walk in front of every motorcar.

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Exciting news about a new Canadian English Dictionary in progress!
blog.editors.ca/a-new-canadi...

(Canada hasn't had an updated national dictionary since The Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition was published 20 years ago)

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just was asked (in Italian) if I spoke Italian; answered ‘non parlo’ which I think was the best way of proving it

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I’m so sorry :( But also thank you for the gift that is ‘pdves’ 💛💛💛

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Update: Wordnik has now sponsored an additional LingComm Grant! Thanks @emckean.bsky.social!

If you'd like to sponsor all or part of extra lingcomm grants, you can do that here: lingcomm.gumroad.com/l/grants

Also grants are only useful if people APPLY

Please forward to people of interest!

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Dawn Xiana Moon's avatar Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social
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Ooh, this is good: "Design is applied ethics. Because design is fundamentally intention. And if you don't intend to be ethical, then you intend the opposite." - Erika Hall

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me trying to explain Advent to someone without a religious upbringing: "it's like C25K, but for Jesus"

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Diana Vreeland's avatar Diana Vreeland @dianavreeland.bsky.social
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why don't you ... restart an abandoned project?

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Without downloading any new pics, what’s your energy going into 2024

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I just read “I support you continuing to be a bitch about this” and I’ve found my theme for 2024 two weeks early. Go forth and bitch my friends, I support you!

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Uh, how will you GET the content if not for the infrastructure? It’s not like you can run next door and borrow a cup of Wikipedia when you want to learn something 🙄

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evpok, wood bitch's avatar evpok, wood bitch @evpok.bsky.social
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I hear linguists have a hundred words that mean 'the sapir-whorf hypothesis"

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It's the last eleventh of the year, so Things I Learned While Looking Up Other Things is 11 words I saved citations for in 2023: buttondown.email/thingslearne... (plus some bonus words, just because)

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From The Devil’s Home On Leave, by Derek Raymond

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I feel like there’s a niche product opportunity here

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Jessica Page, Miss Great Britain, went as the Oxford Dictionary of English for the costume competition at the Miss Universe pageant.

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My vote is for “I Feel For You” 😂

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Dr. Damien P. Williams (Temporarily Logged Off)'s avatar Dr. Damien P. Williams (Temporarily Logged Off) @wolvendamien.bsky.social
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Every new LLM start-up needs detailed discussions of water & energy use in their public facing documents, & all public sector discussion of these systems must require said. I want everything we're doing to be interconnected efforts, because the problems also are. Demonstrate we've LEARNED something

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what if, when you die, death turns up and tells you the best joke you’ve ever heard, a joke so perfectly tailored to your sense of humour that you laugh and laugh for the rest of eternity

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