In the same way people inevitably get arthritis, with time, restaurant table legs all become uneven and the tables start to wobble.
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I don’t agree that social media is making us depressed/changing our brains/ruining society etc. but I do know it’s responsible for making it mandatory to say “hack” instead of “tip” and I resent that.
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Kevin Costner looks like the type of guy who declines a threesome because he has to get up early to mow the lawn.
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It’s easy to blame Boomers for ignoring climate change etc. but I’m from the generation that allowed the Dave Matthews Band to get famous so I’m not exactly going to start throwing stones.
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Hereby reserving “Chinese Balloon” as a band name #ChineseSpyBallon #chineseballoon
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Hot for high school English teacher types erroneously believe that English language skills are all about avoiding the passive voice. True Linguists, however, can tell you it’s more about knowing you can call a Southern dumpling “hush puppy” but not “Silence, baby dog!”.
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Hard for me to calibrate an appropriate level of concern regarding personal data security. On the one hand, our phones are surveilling us constantly. On the other, I was just able to log onto the free airport wifi with the email address [email protected].
Grammar grouches seem to think speaking English is all about not splitting infinitives but ask any True Linguist - it’s knowing the chorus of a pop song can be “Wake up, little Suzie” but not “Arise, diminutive Susan”.
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I recently saw a picture of an ice cream cone that I found particularly alluring and exclaimed “Mama mia, poopoo pee-a!” to an empty room, so yeah, I’d say I share in this wonderment of the universe.
You can tell from a musician’s between song banter how their bedside manner would be if they were, say, a surgeon or a massage therapist.
Grammar pedants love to haughtily tut tut over made up rules about not splitting infinites etc. but True Linguistics is the stuff of this thread 😍
There are certain verbs in English which are intransitive except for when the object is derived from the verb itself ("cognate objects")
For example, "sleep"
🙂 I slept the sleep of the just
🤯 I slept a nap



