Words I think we need

radiantbutterfly:

Schrodinger’s Douchebag: One who makes douchebag statements, particularly sexist, racist or otherwise bigoted ones, then decides whether they were “just joking” or dead serious based on whether other people in the group approve or not.

explore-blog:

If Dr. Seuss created Star Wars by Jason Peltz – the best speculative Star Wars since if Darth Vader raised little Luke, and the best speculative Seuss since if Dr. Seuss stories embraced political incorrectness.
(↬ It’s Okay To Be Smart)

May the Fourth be with you.

explore-blog:

If Dr. Seuss created Star Wars by Jason Peltz – the best speculative Star Wars since if Darth Vader raised little Luke, and the best speculative Seuss since if Dr. Seuss stories embraced political incorrectness.

( It’s Okay To Be Smart)

May the Fourth be with you.

biologytextbook:

a support group for people who began using popular slang ironically but now cannot stop

"A word that ought to have survived is slangwhanger (1807, American English) 'noisy or abusive talker or writer.'" →

librarean:

I saw a folk etymology (shortened language > slang) that made me curious about the real etymology, and I found this little gem in the process.

thisbecatness:

thisbecatness:

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reshiham:

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incidentalcomics:

How to Make Write
Illustration for the 3/31 NYT Sunday Review and NYT Opinionator Draft essay “Those Irritating Verbs-as-Nouns.” Thanks to AD Matt Dorfman!

incidentalcomics:

How to Make Write

Illustration for the 3/31 NYT Sunday Review and NYT Opinionator Draft essay “Those Irritating Verbs-as-Nouns.” Thanks to AD Matt Dorfman!

victoriousvocabulary:

ADVERSARIA
[noun]
1. a commonplace book.
2. a miscellaneous collection of notes, remarks, or selections.
[Vlad Gerasimov]

victoriousvocabulary:

ADVERSARIA

[noun]

1. a commonplace book.

2. a miscellaneous collection of notes, remarks, or selections.

[Vlad Gerasimov]

"Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self when one does not lack wit and is familiar with all the niceties of language. Language is a prostitute queen who descends and rises to all roles. Disguises herself, arrays herself in fine apparel, hides her head and effaces herself; an advocate who has an answer for everything, who has always foreseen everything, and who assumes a thousand forms in order to be right. The most honorable of men is he who thinks best and acts best, but the most powerful is he who is best able to talk and write."
George Sand, Indiana (via victoriousvocabulary)

Google clashes with Swedes over 'ungoogleable' →

victoriousvocabulary:

“Google has forgotten one thing: language development doesn’t care about the protection of trademarks.”

victoriousvocabulary:

GRAPHOMANIA
[noun]
(from Greek γραφειν — writing, and μανία — insanity) also known as scribomania, refers to an obsessive impulse to write. When used in a specifically psychiatric context, it labels a morbid mental condition which results in writing rambling and confused statements, often degenerating in a meaningless succession words or even nonsense and called then graphorrhea.

victoriousvocabulary:

GRAPHOMANIA

[noun]

(from Greek γραφειν — writing, and μανία — insanity) also known as scribomania, refers to an obsessive impulse to write. When used in a specifically psychiatric context, it labels a morbid mental condition which results in writing rambling and confused statements, often degenerating in a meaningless succession words or even nonsense and called then graphorrhea.

(Source: ellennah)

victoriousvocabulary:

ADOXOGRAPHY
[noun]
good writing on trivial subjects; fine writing in praise of trivial or base topics.
[Tony Sandoval]

victoriousvocabulary:

ADOXOGRAPHY

[noun]

good writing on trivial subjects; fine writing in praise of trivial or base topics.

[Tony Sandoval]

fiyerro:

i’ve been angry about this for my entire life