High=demand religion is a euphemism for cult
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High=demand religion is a euphemism for cult
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📖 213 entrées dans le dictionnaire
🗣️ 82 expressions québécoises
🌿 21 entrées dans la Phaune et Phlore
🎭 7 entrées en Kulture Kebekoise
💼 1 seule en Mardeketing... À agrandir!
⏳ 14 entrées diverses en attente d'intégration
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*C'est en continuel développement, j'ajoute en lot quand ça vaut le coup. 🏴
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Learning About Cassette Futurism
I recently read Mike Piggott's blog post A love letter to cassette futurism (HT Dragonfly BSD Digest). I did not recall having seen the term before, but Mr. Piggott's definition of it being "a retr-fusion aesthetic from around 1970-1985 ... that essentially envisions a future through utilitarian, analogue technology" was about what I expected from the headline. As I started reading, I thought to myself that this sounded tangentially similar to cyberpunk (granting cyberpunk is not among my […]https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/learning-about-cassette-futurism-04-28-26/
Crystalline and Holographic
Two correct descriptions of reality, read from two different dimensional vantages — and why the Sensible Universe Model needs both.https://sensible-universe.com/2026/04/22/crystalline-and-holographic/
Can we please reverse the trend in the UK for language inflation?
In a US bank, everybody is an Assistant Vice President. Teach your first class at a US university and you're a professor.
Now we're doing it in the UK.
A student is someone who has *chosen* education. If you're there cos the state says you must, you're a pupil!
A school is a school, it's not a sodding academy!
Language matters: we cannot discuss anything if we continually mess around with definitions.
"Color is as much a part of our lives as air, water, and taxes. And it is maddeningly, beguilingly slippery." In a new excerpt from her forthcoming book, Kory Stamper details how her work at Merriam-Webster launched her fascination with colors and the "dozens of overlapping concerns" that define them.
https://longreads.com/2026/03/19/color-dictionary-definitions-kory-stamper/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social #dictionaries #definitions #colors #history #longreads
Understanding words: Liberal