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This classic move is my favorite reason for never expecting a philosopher not to be ultimately insufferable.

also learning about psychoanalysis dramatically enriches the experience of eavesdropping lol

Is this kind of wholesale appropriation of American slang acceptable in professional British English?

This is lit

The replies:

This really reminds me of that sad old rock n' roll song about not getting fooled again.

This is the kind of thing that bears repeating because understanding it is in fact very eluctable.

Great example of enregisterment in action, if true.

#OTD 120 years ago, Harry Hoijer (1904-1976) was born. He specialised in documenting the Athabaskan languages as well as the - now extinct - Tonkawa language. In a text from 1951, he coined the term "Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis". #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

Go for a walk

karma

Amazing how none of the replies to this are remotely radical. Does anyone remember what "radical" used to mean?

Why aren't there more cool diagrams like this in literary criticism?

amazing energy here

Famous last tweet before you’re burned at the stake

Why are people so down on pointlessness?

Imagine obsessing over polls in the 1933 German election without covering Mein Kampf. That is what is going on now.

The blood libel thing is an excellent point. But this kind of speech act — lying not to deceive but for the fun of making your audience cope with your lie — feels like a cultural innovation of our online age. Is there a good name for this kind of speech act, I wonder.