I had a dream last night that Neko Atsume added a new food item called “Shitty Bitz” and buying it gave you fish instead of the other way ‘round but it put it out as soon as you bought it and you couldn’t replace it and it took forever to get emptied out (the only way to get rid of it) because it would only attract two cats and their names were Hobo and Glunkus but also that was the only way to get those two cats to show up. Hobo looked like a kinda dirty brown cat and Glunkus looked like the devil like he was black and his entire face was teeth. I woke up crying
that was a fun idea until you described Glunkus holy shit
A family out for a stroll on southern Vancouver Island stumbled upon the extraordinary fossilized remains of a 25-million-year-old flightless bird that has created a flap in the world of paleontology.
The fossil was in good enough condition for researchers to identify the animal as a new species of a plotopterid, a long-extinct penguin or cormorant-like bird never before found in Canada.
A collarbone from the bird was found inside a slab of rock on a Sooke, B.C., beach.
It’s only the second set of fossilized bird bones found on southern Vancouver Island since 1895, said bird expert Gary Kaiser of the Royal B.C. Museum.
Fossils of birds are extremely rare because the fragile and hollow bones don’t hold up to crushing weight, acidic soils and elements like other fossils do.
“They get broken up, crushed easily,” Kaiser said in an interview Tuesday. “The bones simply dissolve. They disappear.”
In this case, the sandstone and lack of acid in the water seemed to preserve the fossil, he said.
how i learned how to spell assassin without using spell check:
ass
ass
in
my legacy
I’m suddenly reminded of the old White Wolf website (publishers of popular roleplaying games about vampire politics, for those who don’t recognise the name). Their forum software had a profanity censor which couldn’t be turned off, and which would block naughty words even when they appeared as components of other words. The censor’s gloss of “ass” was, of course, “butt”; consequently, the word “assassinate” – which, as you might guess, comes up fairly frequently when discussing vampire politics – would appear as “buttbuttinate”.
Last year, estifito and I solicited contributions to a collaborative linguistmas carol based on Deck the Halls, but I didn’t end up compiling them at the time. So here it is, better late than never:
Deck the vowels with diacritics Schwa schwa schwa schwa schwa schwa schwa schwa schwa ‘Tis the season for linguistics Schwa schwa schwa schwa schwa schwa schwa schwa schwa
Fast away the old slang passes Schwa schwa schwa schwa schwa schwa schwa schwa schwa Prescriptivists are blinkered asses Schwa schwa schwa schwa schwa schwa schwa schwa schwa (Rose Fox in the Disqus comments)
Polyglots are now practicing Schwa schwa schwa schwa schwa schwa schwa schwa schwa Ignoramos su code switching Schwa schwa schwa schwa schwa schwa schwa schwa schwa (@twentyonezero)
Speak we now with odd syntax and Schwa schwa schwa schwa schwa schwa schwa schwa schwa Violate a Gricean Maxim Schwa schwa schwa schwa schwa schwa schwa schwa schwa (@meaninglessmonicker)
Feel free to add another verse if you didn’t get a chance before!
Kimchi and Justice 