Oh Doo Dah Friggin’ Day.

Lore Fitzgerald Sjoberg of Bad Gods fame is to blame for all of my problems today. For this reason. I’m notorious for getting songs repetitively stuck in my head, and I’m also notorious for obsessing over rhyme and meter, creating accidental crap-tastic parody songs of any melody my poor ears are subjected to. The OCD… Continue reading Oh Doo Dah Friggin’ Day.

Linguistic Innovation

Just the other day, I overheard someone saying that he “sunk up with [a coworker]” about a certain issue at a meeting. HA! Right, because “synchronize (up)” shortens to “sync (up)” which sounds like the verb sink, past tense sunk… God. That would make a great paper topic, “Syntactical innovation with verbal homonyms” or something.… Continue reading Linguistic Innovation

More linguistic diversity

Some more Catalan words for which we have no exact equivalent (and keep in mind this is just a SMALL sampling): camaleònic – chameleon-like ignívom – that vomits fire (I assume this is akin to fire-breathing? But no, they don’t have to compound to express that concept, there’s a WHOLE WORD for it!) galamó –… Continue reading More linguistic diversity

i Fabra

I’m so very, very excited to start my new job on Monday. (For those of you imaginary readers who weren’t aware – today is my last day at Devir; Monday I start as a contractor at Microsoft.) Not only am I thrilled to be doing something I’m fascinated by, but I’m also excited for some… Continue reading i Fabra

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