Obama is in
As you probably all know by now, Barack Obama announced his candidacy for President today. I just watched the announcement...
Archive for Language
Greek suffix meets Lingua Terra
Sometimes people complain that the word polyamory is a mix of Latin and Greek roots. I've been known to make...
Pirates
Arr, me hearties! Today was, of course, Talk Like a Pirate Day, as I'm sure you all knew. One of...
Patriotic fiction
I am not a patriot in the usual sense of the term. Humanity and the world are generally more important...
Neology feed
In case anyone's interested but missed it, Irilyth has kindly set up a LiveJournal feed for my Neology wordblog. At...
Neology
I've started a new mini-blog: Neology, in which I post words I encounter that I don't know the meanings of,...
Things that have made me laugh this morning
The morning's just barely begun, and already two things have made me laugh:
Words easily confused #16
And since I'm apparently being Writing Curmudgeon Guy lately, I think it's time for another installment of "words easily confused."...
Words easily confused #15
Time for another installment. (To see previous editions, search my journal for the phrase "words easily" (no quotes)—that'll show the...
Items: Shifting paradigms
Feeling a little better than yesterday, but still not up to going to work. Yesterday I didn't do nearly enough...
Another gender guesser
Geoff's Gender Guesser attempts to determine whether a given name is more likely a male name or a female name,...
Words easily confused (or misspelled, or not) #14
Time for another installment. (To see previous editions, search my journal for the phrase "words easily" (no quotes)—that'll show the...