Q. Pheevr
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“Frigidly shy at the commencement of a party, confusingly vigilant about the middle, and insultingly weary towards the end.” “Combine[s] stateliness with a desperate effort to be funny.” Pronouns: accustomed to he, also fine with they
This, of course, is a Gorch Fock-class barque whose moniker memorializes a Wallachian voivoide. Actors and orators, please feel free to use the preceding sentence as a vocal warmup exercise.
I happened to notice that FIFA’s doing its part to contribute to the ongoing erosion of the morphological distinction between the English simple past tense and past/passive participle.
“Verify your age”? The first computer programs I wrote were stored on cassette tape. (Yes, punch-card people, you have the right to address me as “young whippersnapper”.)
Everybody knows the best time and place for wildlife photography is an industrial rail yard in dense fog in the middle of the night.
And in the Atlantic provinces of Canada, too—especially Newfoundland, where local accents show a lot of Irish influence. It’s enough of a symbol of regional identity that a brewery in Cape Breton even made a beer about it!
• The Oxford English Dictionary, volume XIX (Unemancipated–Wau-wau) • The Oxford English Dictionary, volume XVI (Soot–Styx) • The Oxford English Dictionary, volume I (A–Bazouki)
This was on the wall of the auditorium at UQAM where the #LabPhon20 talks were held. I have two questions: 1. Does the hyphenation of “DRAMATI-/ QUES” constitute evidence for word-final empty nuclei in French? 2. Is that really Comic fucking Sans?!
Spring is an illusion produced by interspersed halftone dots of winter and summer.
I do find it a little hard to read when the lines go back and forth like this—which makes me wonder how hard it would be to make the lines always go outwards from the inner circle without crossing it or one another.
And what if I believe the first half of this statement precisely because I disagree with the second half? What if I think most cops are acting in good faith within a system whose structure nonetheless channels their efforts towards perpetuating racist and classist oppression?
Some questions contained presuppositions that are bizarre to me. Wtf do you mean, “regain”? Cf. elections.ca/content.aspx...
It just occurred to me: the Ottawa Charge are the only sports team I can think of whose name is also the name of an infraction (penalty, foul, etc.) in the sport they play.