If a tree falls on the internet, and I don't hear about it until a few years later, is it still news?

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002101.html
has a few ZITS comic strips about male/female talking, and other comics too.  Then it thinks most thinkily about them.  Fun.

In honor of Eldest Child, who at the wise old age of six decided that home-made applesauce is ‘enough gooder’ than the store-bought stuff that he’d help peel the apples himself, and is now teaching Little Red peel apples.  Eldest Child used to confuse the two words, because while the apples went into the pot, the peels went to … grandma’s compost ( Read more... )

The witch who gave Snow White the poisoned apple has snaggled teeth.  MS Word insists that this isn't a word, and suggests snuggled.  Yeah, I don't think so.

Her teeth snuggled with Snow White?  That is just the image we want, as I write the wizardly duel between Our Hero and teh Evil Sorceress.

Snaggled - markedly uneven : irregularly projecting ( Read more... )

No new words today.
What's the point of talking if no one hears you?
What's the point of talking if, for saying a few words, you get trashed for hyper-extensive hyping yourself?
( Shh, someone might hear you )

Are Kiss and Kith related?  You can do one with the other, especially grandparents...
( Smooches... )

In honor of my heroine Anna finally meeting the dragon that got cut out of chapter one, here are some more dragon words!

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I am on a book-based mailing list.  The problem with this is people really, really like to play with words.
Why is this a problem?

( Why indeed... )

Happiness, Contentment, Joy
Why are there so many words?( Read more... )

I know the difference, I really do!  but Spell Check (TM) and even the grammar checker don't seem to care that:
( Eat sand? )

LJ, why do you not notice when I tap the Enter key?  I used to type the posts straight in the box, and now I have to copy paste.  A dual action.  I challenge you to a duel!

Dual - a doubled thing

Duel - a fight over honor, sometimes to first blood, rarely to death