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Sending a bunch of based realtors and off-duty cops into the Capitol building to murder the speaker of the house, in my official capacity of President of the United States.

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I’m telling you the resting it on your pussy bone thing actually does kind of work

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it's gita time's avatar it's gita time @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social
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This is a caricature of a “sex starved intellectual” and you know what they got his ass

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who is the youngest living person who has read this

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just passed pigler’s cove … take me into your cove pigler

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Alexander Chee's avatar Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social
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In 1970, Forster’s posthumous gay novel Maurice was published with a note from him saying the idea came from a moment when his friend George Merrill touched his buttocks.
I’ll talk tomorrow about the resulting novel, 6pm-7:30pm EST online, recorded for the pre-registered. fawc.org/24-pearl-str...

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35 year old trying to become a bucket hat guy's avatar 35 year old trying to become a bucket hat guy @stefanheck.bsky.social
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new kiki shape

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Tricia Lockwood's avatar Tricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social
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I just thought of him: Garody. A parody of gary

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attempting to butch up the vatican with noodle words … succeeding only in giving the world a theme night

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no, I’ve got it. it’s jean teasdale’s column if she were in a lesbian relationship with florence king

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Tricia Lockwood's avatar Tricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social
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quotidiana was the next thing I looked up! there were a few examples of that too (I didn’t delve deeply) but they also seemed to be of the “poetic license” “we are kind of making this up” variety.

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Tricia Lockwood's avatar Tricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social
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right. and it looks like all the early modern cites are adjectival, but then there are the recent academic ones, where people just seem to assume that it is/should be a word. or in the harper’s case, possibly being cutesy about the fact that it isn’t.

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yes, it’s thomas adams, from mystic bedlam, or the vvorld of mad-men. just a really great passage — a DALILA in mine armes.

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Tricia Lockwood's avatar Tricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social
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to have a fit every day about 18 hours long? yes, I guess that would be one of the signs

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I’m trying to crack the “quotidiã feasts” one (Can you tend it, Belly-god?) which is making the least sense to me in this context, as everything else he lists are basically bonbons

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Tricia Lockwood's avatar Tricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social
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right, same. it seemed odd that it was nowhere to be found — it could be useful!

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Tricia Lockwood's avatar Tricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social
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and obviously “quotidian” also works as a noun — not in my particular sentence, but elsewhere — which is maybe why it doesn’t exist?

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the crystal madwoman becomes more “load-bearing” by the second …

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I’m so interested in the “quotidiã fever” itself now. like that was just what they called it, as a term

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Leah P. keinahora poo poo poo's avatar Leah P. keinahora poo poo poo @lpogoriler.bsky.social
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Not a linguist but a little word freak. It looks to me like Portuguese words with “~” over a vowel, indicating nasal pronunciation, often where the original non-Portuguese word would have ended in -n. Like São Paulo, where Spanish would be San Paulo. So you basically got yourself a quotidian there.

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I’ll find the guy who put that in harper’s. and I’ll interview him even if he’s dead

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yah. pretty intuitive I think, kind of an analog to “minutiae.”

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oh it’s in there bitch. and it’s never coming out

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robert p. baird's avatar robert p. baird @bobbybaird.bsky.social
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FWIW, in medieval paleography that sort of diacritic over a vowel often meant you were supposed to mentally add an "m." (e.g. "aliā" = "aliam") Might be something similar going on in these cases for an implied "n."

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so anyway calling all linguists and little word freaks. also this is my bid for the rest of us to start using “quotidia” constantly, until the oed gives in and cites me.

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we theorize (I and my research assistant @stephliana.bsky.social, whose screenshots these all are) that it might come from the latin “cotidie.” we’ve also got “quotidie” in bede, but again, all latin.

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we’ve got it in handwriting! we’ve got it in the epicure! we’ve got it in harper’s! someone’s using it in reference to eliot!why isn’t it a word?

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Tricia Lockwood's avatar Tricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social
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often it was printed with a diacritic — quotidiã or quotidiā — and referred to something called a quotidia fever, which if you’re lucky could be “converted into phrensie”

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