DARN's etymology is really neat. The whole story is only on this Lexicon Valley. Also, some *real* curse words other than the one I did a show on before. Teaser: someone has suggested a gender-neutral pronoun combining she, he and it into ... slate.com/podcasts/lexic… via @slate

Beto saying "fucked up" isn't profane because f--- is no longer profane in any sense an anthropologist would recognize. It's just salty -- and honest, and sometimes le mot juste. Slurs are our modern profanity, not sex and body words. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

English speakers acquire the definition of plural as “not one” and use plural forms accordingly. Why teach falsehoods like “plural means more than one” to children in elementary grammar classes just to have to reexplain the complete truth later? parentingpatch.com/singular-and-p…

Rassie raak woes bit.ly/2NbRBKS

I just told our six-year old about interlibrary loan. Daughter: They’ll get you ANY book? Even if it’s ten miles away? Dad: Even if it’s a thousand miles away! Daughter: Librarians must be magic. Dad: They have to be. They work with books.

Dis Vrydag! Kom ons bak kop! Annelize Visser se artikel in Vrye Weekblad van 23 Augustus deser het my geïnspireer. #skaapkop #afval

A graph and explanation of linguistic knowledge vs linguistic pedantry. *Updated* Sep 2019. #Pedantry #AntiPedantry #PedanticAntiPedantry

Knyp gou 'n paar sekondes af, asseblief? bit.ly/vloek-donders #vloek

Dis nou hoe 'n graadprogram mos moet klink!

Ek het pas begin met Kerneels Breytenbach​ se nuwe roman, Hond se gedagte. Wat 'n heerlikheid! En as ek dinge so kyk, dan is daar nie 'n beter tyd as om dit NOU te lees terwyl die Rugbywêreldbeker aan die gang is nie. amzn.to/2ABRu2O via Amazon

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As al die ander goeie webwerfadresse gevat is ...

Gerhard van Huyssteen gesels oor taboewoorde, konteks en taalgebruik. Luister hier: maroelamedia.co.za/afrikaans/luis… Gerhard van Huyssteen

When you go to a conference and only know one other person

Wen 'n vinnige R2100'tjie met ons blitspeilings - mailchi.mp/e546a3b9368d/w…

Slegs DRIE dae oor om R2100 te wen - mailchi.mp/8d0eda09b4a4/s…

"Voetsek", or "voertsek", or "tsek"! The Dictionary of South African English notes the first usage in English already in 1837 in the spelling "voortzuk". #swearing #swearword #vloek #VoetsekMeghan #VoetsekMeghanMarkle