RobotToasterImpecunious
Corpus
Rhadamanthine
perverb
logophilia
Nevar23I'm crushing on this new-to-me word. Thanks for the vocabulary boost, Philip Pullman.
Jake Mixvermifuge - a drug to cause expulsion or death of intestinal worms; an anthelmintic, a drug used in the treatment of worms
To be honest, I've lost where I ran across this #appendixnlocutionoftheday, but it's so good I still wanted to share it.
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... “dreck,” “bugger off,” “fuck” (as in “fuck it”), “mustard” (the color), “pornosophical” (defined as “of or relating to the philosophy of the brothel”), “schlep,” “smackwarm” (as in “She let free sudden in rebound her nipped elastic garter smackwarm against her smackable woman’s warmhosed thigh”), and “yogibogeybox.”
#literature #jamesJoyce #ulysses #logophilia #protologism #prelogism #neologism
#buggerOff
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https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/why-we-are-no-longer-shocked-by-ulysses
Excerpt from Louis Menand's 2016 essay titled 'why we are no longer shocked by "Ulysses"':
[A]ccording to the Oxford English Dictionary, three hundred and thirty-seven words and phrases made their first appearance in print in “Ulysses,” including ...
Zed LopezI suppose an #introduction is in order. But a bunch of hashtags is what you're getting.
#ttrpg #a11y #typography #FountainPens #SpeculativeFiction #InteractiveFiction #Inform7 #CatPerson #COVIDisolator #Clarion #Writing #Comics #Linux #RecumbentBikes #TalkBizarre #Ruby #Emacs #MechanicalKeyboards #BoardGames #Puzzles #Environmentalism #SocialJustice #ADHD #EastBay #logophilia