January 2012
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“But just as Facebook has become an instrument for meeting and seducing new...”
– Wesley Yang
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beauty in everything: 20 weird English words →
Erinaceous: Like a hedgehog
Lamprophony: Loudness and clarity of voice
Depone: To testify under oath
Finnimbrun: A trinket or knick-knack
Floccinaucinihilipilification: Estimation that something is valueless. Proper pronunciation based on Latin roots: flockə-nowsə-nəkələ-pələ-fək-ation.
Inaniloquent: Pertaining to idle talk
Limerance: An attempt at a scientific study...
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weird word of the week:
stickyembraces:
pogonotrophy - n,the act of cultivating, or growing and grooming, a mustache, beard, sideburns or other facial hair.
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Merism - Wikipedia →
A figure of speech by which a single thing is referred to by a conventional phrase that enumerates several of its parts, or which lists several synonyms for the same thing. See, e.g. “heavens & earth,” “high & low,” and “have & to hold.”
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Figured out how to put things under a cut. Because...
thefuckwouldisaywhatfor:
People rarely date their actual friends. They date friends of friends, and people they met in bars and slept with six hours later. They date coworkers and people they met on OK Cupid. I’m always amused by the clichéd “let’s just be friends” breakup speech for that exact reason. Chances are you were never friends before you decided to be lovers, so there’s no frame of...
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“I don’t like this expression ‘First World problems.’ It is false and it is...”
– Nigerian author and artist Teju Cole (via xkimberlyx)
This combined with reading Open City last year has cemented by fierce, unapologetic love for Teju Cole.
(via delacroix)
YES i have been struggling with how to articulate this
(via methodistcoloringbook)
Most of my family members were born...
December 2011
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“If you happen to be someone who looks at Durant, James, or Amar’e...”
– Wesley Morris: LeBron, Dwyane, Amar’e, & the rise of the NBA nerd
“Nerd-drag” is much better description of this trend than “blipster.” The bit at the end ‘bout gay panic is on point too.
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I’ve had a particularly hard time finding someone... →
Reblog for the title
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Baksheesh - Wikipedia →
a term used to describe tipping, charitable giving, and certain forms of political corruption and bribery
November 2011
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“We believe the galaxy depends on dark matter,” said Richard Gaitskell, Mr....”
– Ruth Toner and Simon Fiorucci - Vows - NYTimes.com
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Theophory - Wikipedia →
Naming convention of adding a god’s name (or the generic term for god) to an individual’s proper name (e.g. Christopher)
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October 2011
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Testilying - Wikipedia →
a United States police slang term for the practice of giving false testimony against a defendant in a criminal trial. It is typically used to “make the case” against someone they believe to be guilty when minor irregularities during the suspect’s arrest or search threaten to result in acquittal on a technicality. Defendants who embellish their own testimony, particularly when no...
September 2011
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“A lot of times you’re funny as a way of not having to say, like, anything real...”
– Jonah Hill
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Malingering - Wikipedia →
[A] medical term that refers to fabricating or exaggerating the symptoms of mental or physical disorders for a variety of “secondary gain” motives, which may include financial compensation (often tied to fraud); avoiding school, work or military service; obtaining drugs; getting lighter criminal sentences; or simply to attract attention or sympathy.
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thatsnotpunny:
what’s the most controversial issue in water travel?
row vs wade
::starts reverse-slow clap::
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“If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no...”
– West Virginia Board of Education v. Barnette (via the-delic)
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Abandoned (And Unusedª?) Apple Trademarks
Just Ask a User
Wheels for the Mind
You, A Mac, A World
We Rewrote the Book
Expect the Impossible
Give Your Dreams a Chance
All Great Software Wears this Faceª
It’s not What the Computer Can Do, it’s What You Can Do
BONUS: Apple applied for “Lynx” and “Cougar” as trademarks for computer operating system software, but both were abandoned in the...
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Peripeteia - Wikipedia →
A reversal of circumstances, or turning point. The term is primarily used with reference to works of literature. The English form of peripeteia is peripety. Peripety is a sudden reversal dependent on intellect and logic. In modern Greek περιπέτεια means adventure.
I like to think of it as the narrative analogue to a paraprosdokian, but then again I also like the jet-skiing squirrel so don’t...
August 2011
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“[N]ever read email. Literally everyone is saying bad things about you in it,...”
– A Lady
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Autological word - Wikipedia →
A word expressing a property which it also possesses itself (the word “short” is short…). The opposite is heterological, a word that does not apply to itself (“long” is not long…).
This answers my prior question about “godwottery”
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Pleonasm - Wikipedia →
The use of more words or word-parts than is necessary for clear expression: examples are black darkness, or burning fire.
July 2011
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Skeuomorph - Wikipedia →
a derivative object that retains ornamental design cues to a structure that was necessary in the original. Skeuomorphs may be deliberately employed to make the new look comfortably old and familiar, such as copper cladding on zinc pennies or computer printed postage with circular town name and cancellation lines. An alternative definition is “an element of design or structure that serves...
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Cosmogony - Wikipedia →
Any theory concerning the coming into existence or origin of the universe, or about how reality came to be.
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Looking for Someone →
morabbiton:
It’s senseless, at least in the absence of divine agency, to declare that any two people were made for each other, yet we say it all the time, to sustain our belief that it’s sensible for them to pair up. The conceit can turn the search for someone into a search for that someone, which is fated to end in futility or compromise, whether conducted on the Internet or in a ballroom. And...
June 2011
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“You never want to see a great athlete pull a Hamlet. Macbeth, yes (bloodbath,...”
– Brian Phillips on Roger Federer’s Loss
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“If you have two Arnold Palmers, that doesn’t mean you have one iced tea...”
– Bill Simmons’s[’s{’s}] Friend Wilde
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Trypanophobia - Wikipedia →
[T]he extreme fear of medical procedures involving injections or hypodermic needles. It is occasionally referred to as aichmophobia, belonephobia, or enetophobia, names that are technically incorrect because they simply denote a “fear of pins/needles” and do not refer to the medical aspect
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Vibrissae - Wikipedia →
the thick hairs found inside human nostrils
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Deontology - Wikipedia →
An approach to ethics that judges the morality of an action based on the action’s adherence to rules
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Aleatoricism - Wikipedia →
The incorporation of chance into the process of creation, especially the creation of art or media. The word derives from the Latin word alea, the rolling of dice. It should not be confused with either improvisation or indeterminacy.
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May 2011
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'Pataphysics - Wikipedia →
The science of imaginary solutions…
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