Jesus Christ I’ve never cared about anything less than whatever is going on there. In fact, it’s horseshoe theory in action. It is so far from anything I care about I am actually annoyed it has reached my eyes, and I therefore do care about it. I didn’t think that was possible.

My girlfriend’s ex is e-stalking her, if that’s a thing. I said she should send him a picture of my cock if he contacts her again. I believe that may have actually happened a couple of days ago. Let’s see if it works.

he is so wise; noble and wise

Odd behaviour from a Labour government, what’s going on?

Did she play The Flash as well?

Yes, that’s a reasonable take.

I don’t understand how you’ve reached that conclusion.

What I was saying is that I have more of an issue with the knee-jerk “languages evolve” response than I have with any particular instance of a language actually evolving.

The reason for this is that it has become another thought-terminating cliché which greatly oversimplifies things but is nevertheless trotted out as if it is the be-all and end-all of linguistics. It isn’t. Particularly with politicised language.

Fine, I have more of an issue with the inevitably-repeated mantra from every internet linguist when anyone offers any pushback on “correct” grammar, spelling, usage. There must be some equivalent of dialectical tension at play or language wouldn’t be stable enough to be usable. There’s no moral component in whether language changes or the rate of that change, that’s just an emergent phenomenon from that kind of network.

I should think the push-back against e.g. semantic drift, spelling alterations etc. is also a normal and natural phenomenon, in the sense of language being a usable shared information network. The amount of effort the French put into preserving their language is a particularly extreme example.

ah yes, the “cishet” thumb, famously distinct and identifiable

ah yes, teaching’s famous “second paycheck”

I had sex with a Japanese girl once. Not relevant, I just like telling people.

What was the joke supposed to be here, that they had rapidly industrialised.

shut up shut up shut up SHUT UP JUST SHUT UP

Yes I think that’s probably enough now.

she cute

I don’t really want to look at this man.

so weird to pay somebody that much

I was trolling/being facetious. I don’t live in the USA. But I can’t pursue a PhD because it amounts to below minimum wage.

you’re a mammal though right