(I didn’t actually respond to this because at this point not only could I not get a word in edgewise, but I have always been suspicious of the woman in Arizona whose husband died from ingesting the fish cleaner. I mean, my first thought was that she probably murdered the sonofabitch. ...
Ms. Bogert goes on about how the word felon had fallen into disuse, and that “the impetus behind the sudden widespread use of the word ‘felon’ is to take Trump down a peg, to label him as no better than a common criminal. And that is the problem.” Years ago, that word (“fel...
In other words, Darwin accepted the idea that evolution could occur by use and disuse of body parts.18 The source of the ubiquitous textbook icon of giraffe neck evolution is unknown. Gould traced it back to Henry Fairfield Osborn's book, The Origin and Evolution of Life.19 Osborn's ...
can quickly become an argot used by slippery-tongued, well-educated insiders to defend their privileges. With luck, the real word may fall into disuse and the humble outsider will feel intimidated by the floppy, opaque language that masks wrongdoing or shortcoming. How do you...
No doubt there exists now some random word generator online that you could use instead, but I think this technique is still fun and has its own merits. For instance, it’s recursive: you can take the word list that you generate, or the text that you write using it, and resubmit it ...