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Posts by Vanessa

Sneezed so hard my neighbors downstairs said, Bless you

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At church:
I’d like to start with a parable—it’s not one of Jesus’ parables. It’s called the parable of the Karate Kid.

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I have now crocheted in four states at once. #crochet rocks.

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Sportscaster #neologism of the day:
“Under an *irradiant* sky…”

The #PoptartsBowl is about to get slammed by some x-rays and gamma rays. Hulk out!
🐤🐤 #linguistics

3 months ago 1 0 0 0

{Christmas in the South}
Silent night [fireworks]
Holy night [FIREWORKS]

…fireworks

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#UnexpectedMormon in Coeds and Cattails.

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The ridiculous problem with having my Alexa wake-up word as “Computer” is that I’m a huge #Trekkie and Janeway and Uhura and Picard and Geordie send Alexa down A LOT of rabbit holes while I (re)watch.

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What I love about this is a few years back, a student pointed out that ideas can indeed be green. And now I use it as an example of how cool language change is.

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It’s a travesty that they aren’t calling the #AflacKickoff the Poultry Bowl. I mean, it involves 2 bird mascots sponsored by another.

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É a noite, é a morte, é um laço, é o anzol

youtu.be/xU2AT8MDm2c?...

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I almost forgot to point out the metathesis that occurs in the portmanteau but not the unportmanteau “prejudice”.
Man, I love language. 🐦🐦🦤

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An accidental lost in translation portmanteau that I think we should invite onto our speech. From
@ jess_doesstuff_ On Instagram
🐦🐦
PERJUMENTAL!!

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Latest neologism by a sports announcer: hændkʌftɪɾɪd
🐦🐦 A #linguistics novelty.

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Cover of graphic novel: Death of Stalin by Nury (French), tome 1

Cover of graphic novel: Death of Stalin by Nury (French), tome 1

Cover of graphic novel: Death of Stalin by Nury (French), tome 2

Cover of graphic novel: Death of Stalin by Nury (French), tome 2

Cover of graphic novel: Death of Stalin by Nury (English translation), tome 1

Cover of graphic novel: Death of Stalin by Nury (English translation), tome 1

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I suggest the graphic novels La Mort de Staline (Robin, Nury) and the movie adaption, The Death of Stalin.
The only difference is in the capability of our current kakistocracy.
Anyway, the leadership under Stalin was just as craven as ours, but they were better at their chosen jobs.
Gross.

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I’m watching #MallorcaBarça en español and the play-by-play announcer’s ratatatat reminds me of when we’d go visit my grandma at the auction.

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This video from Fairmount Bagels in Montreal from their Instagram is the most impressive thing I've ever seen

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"Sam Philandering" is the supposed
name of a cartoon show a six-yr-old was describing to her teacher today while walking to their primary class at church.

I'm skeptical, but intrigued.

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I #crocheted 🧶 myself a Yipyip monster yarn bag holder thingie with a carabiner to thread the yarn.
Cro Chet
Cro Chet
Cro Chet
Cro Chet
Crochet!

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#UnexpectedMormon in Jana DeLeon’s Miss Fortune series. Although, with the kind of joke that it was building to, it’s more of a *Slightly Expected Mormon*.
#TeamGertie

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#UnexpectedMormon and slightly skewampus understanding of Mormon private/public lives re: elders in Douglas Phillips’ Quantum Time. #ExpectedMormon narrator Kirby H.

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Oh, forgot this: 🐦 🐦
#neologismized

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Also, there aren't captions, sorry about that. But the captions produced by the broadcasters were white on white. Me and my good eyesight had to squint. They got the players name wrong and didn't verbify the adjective ~akin~, just left it without the past tense conjugation {sadddd}.

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Sports announcing is one of my favorite places to collect innovations. Sometimes the innovations are one-off unicorns

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I’m at church on vacation in Deep South Georgia and the bishop has a pink suit jacket and the woman that gave the opening prayer was wearing fancy black gloves.
True South.

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I love how we don't know the year from her letter b/c she was like blah blah after the 18--.
I know the year b/c I have his letter to her from Oct 8, 1893. It has bang-up spelling moments. I'll share it later, probs.

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Prodropping of first person singular in English at the beginning of the letter from 1897, then my great great great grandma begins using pronouns pronoun-ish elements.

Prodropping of first person singular in English at the beginning of the letter from 1897, then my great great great grandma begins using pronouns pronoun-ish elements.

My Great Great Great Grandma Malcolm totally prodropping the first person singular at the beginning of her letter to husband (she quickly begins using pronouns and pronoun-ish <words> when clarity seemed necessary). He was at the Chicago World's Columbia Exposition of 1893.
#linguistics 🐦🐦 #prodrop

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High five! Thanks!

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Creepy bumper sticker: my other ride is the comet hale-bopp

Creepy bumper sticker: my other ride is the comet hale-bopp

I saw a creepy bumper sticker today and didn’t get a pic b/c driving and not wanting to crash. Found it online. Seriously, how wacko do you have to be to stick this on your car?

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So I should go to your blog to learn about new-fave?

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