Archive for March 7, 2020

A recent usage of the word “murder”

I’ve been seeing a word usage on the rise lately that I find difficult and tense-making, and I want to talk a little about it. It’s the use of the word or prefix murder as a sort of an adjective, meaning something like “endearingly very good at being violent for purposes that I approve of […]

Untruncating

Facebook notifications often show an abbreviated version of some of the text that they’re about. In particular, notifications about shared links show an abbreviated version of the linked-to piece’s headline/title, with an ellipsis at the end. Which sometimes makes me want to complete the truncated title. Which can have entertaining results. I’ve been meaning for […]