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Rather unfavourable review of Sister machine gun's Sins of the Flesh, but bonus points for "pretty hate machinery", some sort of whole phrase derivation from "Pretty hate machine", NIN's first album:
"Songs like "Sins of the Flesh" and "Degenerate" have an unmistakable pretty hate machinery, and Randall's dramatic whispering and repeated hooks follow the Reznor formula to the letter. "
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Source: https://www.allmusic.com/album/mw0000179747

Sins of the Flesh - Sister Machine Gun | Album | AllMusic

Sins of the Flesh by Sister Machine Gun released in 1993. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.

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Martin Schäfer Jan 20

A: Dann nach Hause. Mutti hat gut gekocht. Erstmal einen fetten Teller Nudeln reingegönnt.

[Kontext: Umkleide Schwimmhalle, zwei männliche Studis im Gespräch, Leipzig, 2026-01-20]
#GermanConversationSnippets
#wordFormation #German

Andrew Shields Dec 2, 2025

“Underbussing” in Heather Cox Richardson’s “Letter from an American” on 1 December 2025. #111Words #HeatherCoxRichardson #PeteHegseth #KarolineLeavitt #LetterFromAnAmerican #Venezuela #Bombings #Underbussing #AdmiralBradley #Linguistics #WordFormation #Morphology https://111-words.ghost.io/underbussing-in-heather-cox-richardsons-letter-from-an-american-on-1-december-2025/

“Underbussing” in Heather Cox Richardson’s “Letter from an American” on 1 December 2025

In her Letter from an American for yesterday, 1 December 2025, Heather Cox Richardson writes about Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's alleged order on 2 September about the survivors of the first bombing of a boat off the Venezuelan coast: "Kill them all." As White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt

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Martin Schäfer Jun 27, 2025

Nice agentive -er derivation from an adjective noun phrase in Nabokov's Lolita: "In a street called Thayer Street, in the residential green, fawn, and golden of a mellow academic townlet, one was bound to have a few amiable fine-dayers yelping at you."
#English #wordFormation

Martin Schäfer May 1, 2025

New paper on #English #wordFormation with -ity and -ness out.
What is it about? In a nutshell: What determines the choice of ity/ness
for a given adjective? And do the two affixes contribute the same
meaning? (1/9)
#morphology

Martin Schäfer Apr 3, 2025

diese maligne Geschwulst des Seins
lauter Sehensunwürdigkeiten

Terézia Mora, Das Ungeheuer

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Martin Schäfer Mar 11, 2025

Nice example for effective affix use: "a disproportionate amount of disapproval". Note the slight cline in #semanticTransparency from the first "dis" to the second.
Source: Jassy Mackenzie, Stolen Lives
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Martin Schäfer Dec 15, 2023

One of my favorite #English #wordFormation facts: "atone" is not a #borrowing from Latin or French, but a #MiddleEnglish conversion from "at one", according to the #OED helped by the prior existence of the verb "one" and the usage of "onement". "atone" then took the place of the verb "one".