#bright likes language

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More verb form exceptions from English

Some present/past:

Leave/left

Bereave/bereft

Cleave/cleft

Weave (breaks down into “warp” and “weft”)

Because that’s a rational word form.

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I was disturbed to find that one of my old posts picked up 2000 notes overnight. Not even a very good post.

Unrelatedly, Grammarly polices the hell out of commas but expresses no problem with sentence fragments.

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The word “cybernetic” was coined in 1948 and had to do with steering/guidance of an animal or machine communication/control system.

Later, of course, it was built into “cyberspace” by William Gibson, and now “cyber” is a byword for computer communication.

Over seventy years ago!

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Wednesday: I lack the word for the state or property of being articulate

Thursday: I’m not sure I know how to spell epistemology

Today: It occurs to me that I don’t know how to pronounce ignoramus

Tomorrow: I just realized ̴̯͕̜̃͗̅̒I̴͍̗̅͜ ̵̳̪͎̓̀̎̓̎͜d̴̜̩͚̓̊͑o̸̖̭̘̙̳̓ͅn̶̻͎̒͐̽̏̍͒’̴͎͓̥͛̄̎t̸̥͗͘͘͝͠ ̶̺͈̑̂̃̾̚s̴̘͔̤̟͉͌́̇p̴̲͉̌͗̍ẽ̶͇̗͖̓á̸̻͔͙k̴̗͒͂̑͌͜͠ ̵̩̝̹̫͖̫̈́́̕͝E̴̡͙̳̓n̶̡͈͔̰̫͑͐́g̴͖͈̘̗͖̎̓̚l̴̨͔̟̮̰̫̅͂͊̈́̕ỉ̶̛̠̹͈̊͐̕s̸̛̤̍̇͘͝ḩ̵̧̳̯͕̏̀̉

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“Not my jam” has been a revelatory addition to my mental vocabulary.

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You know what my new worst feeling ever is?

Realizing that I don’t know what the word for the state or quality of being articulate is.

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I forgive the first typo in a document. Glass houses, &c. I get bitchy after that.

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You know what’s really cool? This one single article of punctuation is a promise: