Erin McKean

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Wording at Wordnik until the words stop.

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If your version of revolution doesn’t look like people trying to care for each other in some fashion, you’re probably not ending capitalism.

It's the eleventh of the month! Time for more things I learned while looking up other things, including a German word meaning both Yes and No at the same time, possibly the first woman bicyclist seen in Italy, & more gems from Victorian Reddit (aka Notes and Queries) buttondown.email/thingslearne...

really excited for the release of “Music for Microwaves”

I'm loving the all the genre-mixing in SF and fantasy these days -- romantasy! heists! screwball comedies! -- but where is my midcentury middlebrow women's fiction SF? I want an unexpected inheritance to send someone to some galactic outpost to meddle with the local eccentrics & get a happy ending

new on the Wordnik blog: Five Words From ... Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth blog.wordnik.com/five-words-f...

Five Words From … Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth by Ingrid Robeyns - Wordnikblog.wordnik.com Welcome to the latest installment of “Five words from …” our series which highlights interesting words from interesting books! In this book, Ingrid Robeyns, the Chair in Ethics of Institutions at the ...

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Can't believe Little Bobby Tables is all grown up and has had their first kid, Ignore All Previous Instructions

I want a good readable fun book on the cultural history of Edinburgh—any recs?

I totally get the appeal of minimalism! I too could be satisfied with just a few, simple, beautiful things … for up to a week at a time

I don't know why I find this amusing but I do! I guess they are working their way up to a fire department? (photo from the STL FB account: www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=6...)

It's the 11th of the month; time for another edition of Things I Learned While Looking Up Other Things: buttondown.email/thingslearne...

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The news is out! I'm writing a picture book!

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Why is real steel not in the criterion collection?? I will break into their god damn closet and add it myself if I have to

Following up on the word 'hangry', 20+ years later: www.seriouseats.com/hangry-8655940

I Pitched "Hangry" for Dictionary Inclusion in 2003 and Was Rejectedwww.seriouseats.com More than 20 years ago, I pitched the word "hangry" on the radio show The Next Big Thing. The hosts were not convinced. Here's my story.

This is the only Princess Bride remake I will countenance. (Click thru for PERFECT Swedish Chef casting)

Click through for scenes from the movie www.tumblr.com/katakaluptas...

Ugh, it sucks when companies (like Webstaurantstore) weaponize their arbitration agreements (always in the small print, of course!) to avoid being held accountable for their bad business practices microcosmpublishing.com/blog/2024/05...

Laddergate: Microcosm vs. Webstaurantstore; Fraud? Definitely not Legit. | Microcosm Blogifestomicrocosmpublishing.com

It's the eleventh of the month, so here are eleven links (mostly) to things I learned while looking up other things: buttondown.email/thingslearne...

if you’re not sure whether or not you have too much stuff just imagine how they are going to market your estate sale

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"Johnson was always eager to acknowledge the distinction between what he had designed and what he had achieved, or ‘the difference between promise and performance’. An honest consciousness of inadequacy, as well as sheer ambition, is a hallmark of his authorship." www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Freya Johnston · Own your ignorance: Samuel Johnson’s Criticismwww.lrb.co.uk

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cool slang is always changing but dated slang is forever, daddy-o www.qwantz.com/index.php?co...

It's the 11th, so time for another installment of "Things I Learned While Looking Up Other Things" buttondown.email/thingslearne...

me (brightly): what kind of cheese do we use in this egg dish? students (resignedly): ricotta me (even brighter): and what pan should we use? students (grudgingly): the large skillet me (incandescent with glee): and what is this dish called, students? students (miserably): a lotta ricotta frittata

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SIX WEEKS until LingComm Grant applications are due! Send us your linguistics communication projects! Now 4 grants thanks to the generosity of @emckean.bsky.social and friends of @kirbyconrod.bsky.social (especially send us LGBTQ+ lingcomm projects for this last one)

The 2024 LingComm Grants are here! Please help us share this with people who may have a linguistics communication project that needs a boost! @superlinguo.bsky.social and I make these happen with the support of @lingthusiasm.bsky.social patrons and other generous people

Grantslingcomm.org 2024 LingComm Grants - Small Grants for Communicating Linguistics to Wider Audiences We want to see more linguistics in the world! The 2024 LingComm Grants are $500 (USD) to support linguistics comm...

it's the 11th of the month, so time for another round of Things I Learned While Looking Up Other Things: buttondown.email/thingslearne...

I’ve given it a lot of thought and I believe the point where it all started to go wrong is when we stopped requiring a man with a flag to walk in front of every motorcar.

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Exciting news about a new Canadian English Dictionary in progress! blog.editors.ca/a-new-canadi... (Canada hasn't had an updated national dictionary since The Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition was published 20 years ago)

A New Canadian Dictionary - The Editors' Weeklyblog.editors.ca John Chew provides an update on the development of The Canadian English Dictionary, a new reference resource for users of Canadian English.

It's the 11th of the month! New episode of Things I Learned While Looking Up Other Things: buttondown.email/thingslearne...

just was asked (in Italian) if I spoke Italian; answered ‘non parlo’ which I think was the best way of proving it

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Update: Wordnik has now sponsored an additional LingComm Grant! Thanks @emckean.bsky.social! If you'd like to sponsor all or part of extra lingcomm grants, you can do that here: lingcomm.gumroad.com/l/grants Also grants are only useful if people APPLY Please forward to people of interest!

Support the LingComm Grantslingcomm.gumroad.com The 2024 LingComm Grants consist of one or more $500 (USD) LingComm Project Grant(s) to support linguistics communication projects that bring linguistics to new audiences in engaging ways, and are coo...

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Ooh, this is good: "Design is applied ethics. Because design is fundamentally intention. And if you don't intend to be ethical, then you intend the opposite." - Erika Hall

me trying to explain Advent to someone without a religious upbringing: "it's like C25K, but for Jesus"