but now it's time to kiss your ass goodbye
Meh. I woke up from one of those deeply vivid and long anxiety dreams this morning and it was fucking with my head. Part of it is PMS, but part of it is being unable to shake that anxious yet groggy feeling of helplessness. Ugh. I went for a walk at lunch and got some kettle cooked chips and an iced latte, and I feel better now, but man, that was a big huge DO NOT WANT.
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I have a question for the hive mind, somewhat work-related, and Google is not being helpful. What's the history of the use of the term "Latin@s," with the @ symbol? I know it's meant to be gender-neutral; I'm just curious about when it came into use (note: I don't mean Latino/a as opposed to Hispanic; I mean specifically replacing the vowel with the @ symbol). If anyone can share links on the topic, that'd be awesome. (I've already found Latin@s: What's In a Name?)
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Dear internets:
Two points:
A. chic != chick
chic:
1 : smart elegance and sophistication especially of dress or manner : style
2 : a distinctive mode of dress or manner associated with a fashionable lifestyle, ideology, or pursuit [wearing the latest in urban chic]
3 : a faddishly popular quality or appeal; also : something (as a practice or interest) having such appeal [the transient tides of academic chic - Irving Kristol]
chick:
1 a : a domestic chicken; especially : one newly hatched b : the young of any bird
2 : child
3 slang : girl, woman
B. hun != hon
hun:
1 : a member of a nomadic central Asian people gaining control of a large part of central and eastern Europe under Attila about a.d. 450
2 a often not capitalized : a person who is wantonly destructive : vandal b usually disparaging : german; especially : a German soldier
hon
: honey 2a
pedantically yours,
me
PS: != means "does not equal": In programming, "!=" is used instead as a way to circumvent the limited ASCII character set. [...] "!=" has carried over into newsgroups and Internet forums.
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I have a question for the hive mind, somewhat work-related, and Google is not being helpful. What's the history of the use of the term "Latin@s," with the @ symbol? I know it's meant to be gender-neutral; I'm just curious about when it came into use (note: I don't mean Latino/a as opposed to Hispanic; I mean specifically replacing the vowel with the @ symbol). If anyone can share links on the topic, that'd be awesome. (I've already found Latin@s: What's In a Name?)
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Dear internets:
Two points:
A. chic != chick
chic:
1 : smart elegance and sophistication especially of dress or manner : style
2 : a distinctive mode of dress or manner associated with a fashionable lifestyle, ideology, or pursuit [wearing the latest in urban chic]
3 : a faddishly popular quality or appeal; also : something (as a practice or interest) having such appeal [the transient tides of academic chic - Irving Kristol]
chick:
1 a : a domestic chicken; especially : one newly hatched b : the young of any bird
2 : child
3 slang : girl, woman
B. hun != hon
hun:
1 : a member of a nomadic central Asian people gaining control of a large part of central and eastern Europe under Attila about a.d. 450
2 a often not capitalized : a person who is wantonly destructive : vandal b usually disparaging : german; especially : a German soldier
hon
: honey 2a
pedantically yours,
me
PS: != means "does not equal": In programming, "!=" is used instead as a way to circumvent the limited ASCII character set. [...] "!=" has carried over into newsgroups and Internet forums.
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