Not to be diacritical, but...

ready to roll out that new protein ice cream?

yeah boss, good to go!

& what are we calling it again?

we’re going with SMEARCASE

excuse me what now?

that’s right, SMEARCASE! like, smear it on your case!

that…can’t be…

and the product category is FROCO!

I give up

Obviously Godzilla holding a wad of money is not going to be found when you've searched for Godzilla holding a train.

Did it return any results of Godzilla holding a monorail, because that would be cool.

Gary Larson's: How to recognize the moods of an Irish setter, showing the exact same dog with the exact same expression, each captioned with different emotions: happy, depressed, angry, pensive [that's my favorite], excited, suicidal. Shown to point out similarity to the stars image comparing different stars, which look awfully similar.

OMG I want to be there. Where is WIPIP happening? Need to sign up for next year!

Lovely covers!

Contrived pronunciations and spellings of brand names are annoying. Glad to have The New York Times ask me and esteemed colleagues @fritinancy.bsky.social and @lexlanham.bsky.social about them.

Thanks! So very psyched to see you at the UCSC Quarry, such a gorgeous venue. Go Slugs! 🐌

Is it available in albatross shape?

a black and white photo of a boy with the words " can i have some more " Alt: Hungry boy demands more linguistic puzzles.

Oh wow! Neat, I want another!

Neat! 🙌🏼

Well, that's quite a clue. I guess you could say the poem is aptophonaesthetic. That is, the words have certain meanings which are reinforced by the sounds in the words which convey those same meanings.

English words of Germanic origin

Dr. Meh

Live and Let Tie Dye

A Cybertruck, overturned. Caption read: “As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. He was laying on his hard, as it were armor-plated, back. His numerous legs, which were pitifully thin compared to the rest of his bulk, waved helplessly before his eyes.”

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. He was laying on his hard, as it were armor-plated, back. His numerous legs, which were pitifully thin compared to the rest of his bulk, waved helplessly before his eyes.

Classic Gary Larson cartoon entitled "How to recognize the moods of an Irish setter" in which six identical images of a chipper Irish Setter are shown, each with a different caption: happy, depressed, angry, pensive, excited, suicidal.

Dystopias are often presented as future possibilities, but they were realities in our past, too.

What if our alphabet is just the 2D shadow of something bigger? What about the letters in higher dimensions we can't see? Even from Flatland, our letters let us describe so much, but imagine what a language with extra-dimensional symbols could express.

What did you name them?

Dressing up tonight as spooky action from a distance 👻

Thanks! 🙏🏼

The 25th-anniversary story of Accenture’s name, from the professional namer who led the project | Fortune An insider’s revealing look into Accenture — the wild ride behind history’s most painstaking corporate name change

The wildest #naming project I have ever worked on launched 25 years ago. I told the story behind the name Accenture to @fortune.com. Please read and enjoy!

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My undergrad thesis was titled "Latin and Moraic Theory" so this post stopped me in my tracks

A circular

tweet from childish branzino @absflora: timothée chalamet is the new benedict cumberbatch in the sense that you can say ANYTHING and we know who you mean. tiffany chevrolet. timpanogos charlemagne. symphony cabernet. jiminy castaway.

Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design

Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme

August linkstack Political language, Olympics naming, generational naming, a new word game, and more.

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The assonance helps here, as does the incongruity. "Fridge cig" sounds good which facilitates adoption. Something like "fridge break" would be less likely to get traction.

The Grateful Dead logo, "Steal Your Face", featuring a skull with a lightning bolt down its center, dividing the center of the skull into red (left) and blue (right) fields, all within a circle of blue (left) and red (right).

March linkstack A good read, some banned words, Covid nostalgia, New Yorker style, and more.

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Solid! 🙌🏼 But I think 'Trump Slump’ are the words you are looking for.
#naming