Peter Sokolowski

and no one seemed to recognize him!

👀 (respectfully)

We can only hope.

In 2002 I went to the "Frank Gehry: Architect" exhibit at the NYC Guggenheim.

You begin at the top & walk down the spiral to see shows there, & I noticed a man giving explanations to the plans & models just ahead of us, to maybe a dozen grad students.

I listened in & followed along. It was Gehry.

YouTube video by Merriam-Webster LLM

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvQn...

Makes me think about the @merriam-webster.com video comparing AI with the new print edition of the Twelfth Collegiate, which has been viewed more than 20M times.

It strikes a chord both because of authority (in the Benjamin sense from the quoted post) and because of authenticity.

A calligraphic print, reading "Did you READ the e-mail??" in an elegant italic hand with gold and green pen flourishes and decorations

Everything is going great, which is why I purchased this print immediately upon seeing it on IG: www.etsy.com/listing/1509...

maybe the devil is well-dressed

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I’m not saying I have a problem with eating in bed but last night I *did* roll over onto something and discovered that it was a marshmallow.

Excellent short essay on words and meanings and usage and Tom Stoppard.

or decimated

Books of the year 2025 New Statesman writers and guests – including Jonathan Franzen, Jacqueline Rose, Marina Warner and Slavoj Žižek – choose their favourite reading this year

Thank you David Crystal and @newstatesman1913.bsky.social
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100% me too

they need a better dictionary

let's all have a drink and talk about things that are not this

ha same same same over here!

(because it can be verbed)

To Forethi'nk. v.a. [fore and think.] To anticipate in the mind; to have prescience of.
johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/1755/forethi...

I'm pretty sure that "buss" meaning "kiss" survives only as a gotcha to catch people who spell "busing" the "wrong" way—I've almost never seen it used in honest earnest (where it risks not being understood, because many readers haven't learned the gotcha).

How to Build a Dictionary: On the Hard Art of Popular Lexicography At the end of the first quarter of the twenty-first century, about 400 million people are native English speakers. With those for whom English is a second language, the number reaches far above: betw…

“This exchange is part of Conversations on Dictionaries: The Universe in a Book, by Ilan Stavans…
It features 22 conversations with the top authorities on dictionaries in 22 different languages: from Arabic, Esperanto, French, + Ancient Greek to Japanese, Italian, Nahuatl, Spanish, + Yiddish.”

*"horrendously"

We never hear complaints about using 'unspeakably' to mean "horrendous."

Just yesterday I got, "You used to work at OED? Did you quit in a righteous rage when they put in the wrong sense of _literally_?"

I flummoxed him by replying, "No, that happened in 1908, so a bit before my tenure there."

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

MUPPET MOLIERE

We started showing our 8yo Back to the Future tonight. My Spanish wife texted her aunt about it & she said she never heard of it. Then she said do you mean Back to the Past which is its Spanish title.
Shouldn’t be surprised by the literalness as Knight Rider is called The Fantastic Car over there.