Ian

Researching for a thesis and putting the damn thing into words are two completely different aesthetic experiences: one relates to the thrill of discovery and the joy of reading; the other, to the struggle of articulation and the exhausting chase for coherence.

One more Linguistics paper and I'll quit this altogether.

The bust of Sir Winston Churchill sits in Trump's Oval Office. He was an immensely brave leader who visited Washington, dressed in fatigues, seeking support against a despot. We all know what he would have made of today's unedifying spectacle and whose side he would have been on.

Academic writing is the simple ability to write clearly, reference extensively, argue strongly, and question endlessly in a field designed to reward all four.

#SlavaUkraïni 🇺🇦

I really like the distinct flavour of tinned beans in some very specific contexts but I’ve never had them outside the UK. The American ones are a different recipe, so not the same, or so I’ve been told. You’re not missing on much, anyway.

Happy Christmas, Joh!

I’ve never been so terrified of having an involuntary cough or one of those uncontrollable sneezing fits I get all the time 🥶

Wishing you all a very happy Christmas.
—IR, xxx

A CHRISTMAS Full of Etymology Reading time: 5 minutes It’s December now, the month when the calendar helpfully provides me with a topic for the monthly article. So, here’s a short and sweet linguistic post with a fe…

A Christmas gift from me to my fellow word nerds:

Nine Christmas-related words with interesting etymologies, one for each of the nine letters of 'Christmas'!

It was written with much linguistic love in an armchair beside a roaring fire.
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Now that I've deactivated twitter all i need is for blue sky to fail and i'll be totally free

The modern man thinks that everything ought to be done for the sake of something else, and never for its own sake.

—Bertrand Russell, In Praise of Idleness.

Another one from the Summer

Is it?

Buying books and reading books are 2 separate hobbies

And Polanco

Condesa-Roma-Juarez

The Greeks absolutely had it right when they included a chorus in their plays. They knew audiences are dumbasses who need to be told “THIS MAN IS BAD. HE IS HERE AS AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT *NOT* TO DO. WOE TO THE BUMPTIOUS FOOL WHO WOULD IDOLIZE HIM. YOU ARE NOT, NOR DO YOU WANT TO BE, ALEX DELARGE”

Full English and ales. Just how I like it.

The Jubilee line has them too

During Covid lockdown, if you had family round on Christmas Day the police could force their way into your home and make them return to their own homes.
Does anybody know if this service is still available and, if so, do you have to book it?

😂

This passage from Schopenhauer is so brilliantly brutal

I thought it was going to be a poem created with AI

The more I learn about reciprocity, the more I realize how it doesn’t have to be mirrored. You can show the same amount of effort in a completely different way and that’s what makes love so fun.

Oh wow. So many friends involved.

Finally managed to get my hands on a physical copy of this work 🙌🏻