Heard about this, lj friends?

Pack rats may want to head here.

(Hat tip to burtlo)

new post hurrah

new Obama post on Belletra.

exhausted.

For anyone who tried to access my site in the last 12 hours and failed, it's back up. I've been trying to find the right software solution to permit localization into 3 languages--apparently last night's solution wasn't it.

I've been tinkering around with Belletra, and therefore avoiding updating.

NO MORE! Here's an excerpt from the latest post:

However much I disapprove of out-loud LOLs and OMGs, I did always love how ROTFLMAO reverberated in my brain after I would read it on screen. Something about it reminds me of Animal from the Muppets:


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From Belletra:

If you offered to get a lost Liverpudlian oriented, well, you wouldn’t want them to think you were making a threat, would you? Of course not. You would bend over backwards, use that extra syllable, and do anything you could to disambiguate your meaning. In a figurative way ( Read more... )

Man, I love that the titles of the posts at my professional blog are getting more risqué by the day. And it's still all about the words:
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Disclaimer: Dear readers, this entry contains examples of a virulent and suggestive Internet meme. Several, in fact. Viewers who scroll down will find pictorial innuendo and thinly abbreviated ( Read more... )

New stuff on Belletra!

...So London Simon (I checked) uses “beavering away.” But what about my U.S. and Canadian readers? Have you used this expression before, or would you call yourself as busy as a bee, instead ( Read more... )

My Belletra entry on obliged vs. obligated ended up on LEOI use LEO every single day, multiple times a day, for German language queries. It's a user-generated German/English dictionary. And now MY BLOG has been immortalized there for all time ( Read more... )

From Belletra:

As I’m sure most of you have figured out by now, yesterday’s post was a joke for April Fool’s Day. There is no Peter Andrews of the media relations department at Merriam-Webster online. If you look up “its” in the dictionary, you’ll still find multiple definitions for the iterations that go with and without an apostrophe. The ( Read more... )