Lexicon: a linguistic game without rules. (Ganked from ozarque.)

http://linguistlist.org/donation/fund-drive2006/games-puzzles/lexicon/rules.cfm.

If you get past level 3, gimme a hint, so I can keep playing?

I have my résumé up on a few job search sites. I haven't updated it, or looked at any of them, in six months... but it's there, so I occasionally get emails like this one:
From: WFH Group
Mailed-By: vw1.webcomm.us
Reply-To: "lyneau@comcast.net"
To: Erica L Frank
Date: Sep 4, 2006 2:02 AM
Subject: Third attempt to contact you
Erica ( Read more... )

This was originally written 2-10-99, in response to a set of discussions about "men's traditions" and "warrior ethics" and stuff like that. If I were writing it today, I'd change a bit of the phrasing--but not much. Its, umm, inflammatory and controversial. I've had Asatru stop speaking to me over this essay.        The difference between a " ( Read more... )

Lost in Translation is website that scrambles your text via babelfish--by translating it to 5 languages and back to English between each one ( Read more... )

No real reason for this; it's on my mind today. "How do I make a Book of Shadows" has come up on a few different lists recently, and I decided I'd put my answer(s) in one place so they'd be accessible. (So I don't have to re-type them and can just share a link.)

"Book of Shadows" means different things to different people. ( rambling BoS thots )

Oh you gotta see thisApparently the MPAA has decided that one particular slash website is illegally using their trademarked "NC=17" label--and has sent the owner a Cease & Desist order ( Read more... )

I was watching the news. They talked about a woman in Iraq who'd been kidnapped & murdered, and referred to her as "the victim" of these horrible actions. Then they talked about a soldier who'd shot & killed an unarmed prisoner on the ground, and referred to the prisoner as "the victim". (There will be an investigation blah blah etc ( Read more... )

(Idea sparked from gay_marriage; spread it around)

We don't want "gay marriage rights." As the jerks point out, gays have the right to marry... just not necessarily the people they want to.
We don't want "same-sex marriage rights." It sounds like opp-sex couples shouldn't care about it.

We want EQUAL marriage rights.

( My mind has been caught on this all day )

http://www.livejournal.com/community/customers_suck/7141321.html?thread=67884745#t67884745

I followed a few friends' links around, and wound up at feminist reading this thread about the possibility that women should "take responsibility" for the aggression they bring into a relationship.

And, of course, many flames ensued.

I think I understand what the original poster (ladydaydreamer) is trying to say, but doesn't have the vocabulary: there are women who ( Read more... )