there's a lovely medical term for bruising, and that's ecchymosis - and til it comes from the ancient greek for "juice where it shouldn't be" and that's just fantastic

also it's a word with a great mouthfeel we think

a weighted blanket is not enough please compress me into a .zip file

Like I'm sure sex is cool and all but have you ever thought about the relationships between different word classes

On a tangential note: endnotes are the worst, and even more annoying in a PDF than they are in a printed book. Hate hate hate hate hate. Why do publishers insist on fucking endnotes over the obviously superior footnote.

eleventh plague. emails. 

[sic] is my favorite editorial notation because of its inherent bitchiness.

Huge fan of when my speech patterns rub off on people enjoy when thay happens

when we realize the deadline for the call for papers is today

i love languages so much i think they are so beautiful and linguistic diversity needs to be maintained because there are so many languages in the worlds and thats so aweosme *visibly choking back tears over the fact that i will never be able to speak every language ever*

What good is your fancy etymology database when it can't even give me the date of the first recorded use of "McFucking" as an intensifier?

love the word “rapscallion”. like not only are you a rascal but you’re also kind of spring onion about it too

noticing as I learn different languages I tend to think using the shortest word from any of those languages, so for example instead of "this is" or "dette er", I'll just automatically think "c'est"

So my proposal is a creole of every language in which we find the shortest syllabic way to say every single word and speak at maximum efficiency

On recursive reference

anticonstitutionnellement jusqu’à la fin <3