Why language textbooks can’t just switch to ‘noun class’ is beyond me.

You can put neither hubcaps nor bumperstickers on helicopters; they’re obviously an internal-combustion-powered subspecies of bullroarer.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being Meringue

They planned to update it, but then had to start downloading the update for the background updater that updates the main updater, and then the update was deprecated.

It’s all to deniably smuggle in a false presupposition.

If you were designing a program to filter out clickbait articles based on specific words in the headlines, what are the top five words you’d regard as red flags?

Similarly, BARs — Baffling Alien Ruins.

Sounds normal to me.

“Majestic sea slug” is somehow not a phrase I ever expected to encounter.

“Bedknobs and Botflies”?

I suspect at least some airport staff will call in sick, too, out of simple caution. When the worst-case scenarios are “kidnapped and dumped overseas” or “permanently scarred (or killed) by ‘nonlethal’ munitions”, it is a valid health concern.

Not sure if it’s quite the same but sentence-initial negation is ebbing. Instead of « no units were sold », it’s « all the units weren’t sold » (which is ambiguous)

This may explain Kash Patel’s habitual facial expression.

Does the registration system allow you to have section titles that display along with the course titles (e.g. “Topics in Literature: Edward Bulwer-Lytton”)? That does kick the can to whoever’s teaching the section this time, but it can work.

Keep following those directives with “so, eat lentils, folks.” And see how much gibbering comes from the meatpacking companies

We had it growing up because the older people thought it cured “tired blood” (B12 deficiency, I think) and that the elderly in particular needed it. B12 supplements taste so, so better.

Given the amount of industrial-strength hair product on display there, he does have firebrand potential. Best to avoid sparks.

Going to need some courtroom - size Faraday cages.

This is one of the vanishingly few cases where “reign in” would have been more accurate.

You can at least pickle the bejayzus out of beets so they taste like spicy sweet vinegar with a hint of topsoil. Pickling matcha just makes a mess.

Muhammara is easy and also okay for any vegans — it’s roasted red sweet peppers and walnuts ground up in a food processor with garlic, lemon juice, and a little olive oil (grind the walnuts, then add the peppers). Great on pita, crackers, etc.

Google’s managed to become deprecated even under the old, pre-software meaning.

Now wondering if 12 hours later counts as an undermorrow (1 1/2 days would be a sesquimorrow; few things are as traditional in English as getting derivational morphemes that fell out of the back of a truck).

Regular space heater that heats gasses within a space, or the literal kind that directly increases vacuum energy, heating space itself?

Well, also buzzwords. They’re vague enough that one can deny they’re lies. Just bullshit (in Frankfurt’s sense).

Have you tried using naked mole rats? Probably not technically rats, but they’re decidedly non-photogenic and could be tunneling away building a pit trap right under you, like a collective carnivorous sinkhole.

It’s a minimalist depiction of a plesiosaur?

I can see the deviled eggs adding a note of horseradish you’d want in there anyway.

“From this perspective….” (Figure there’s a similar drift from (literal) line of sight to general worldview on something)