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I am a Verb, You are a Noun (chasin' the snail)

22 Aug 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

When sailing the seas of hideous idiocy, you will come across people who revel in being obstacles to excellence for everyone around them.  In grammatical terms, these are human nouns.  Often, they are hung up on their "pro-nouns."  When they ask you...

A Fluffle of Rabbi

25 Mar 2024 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

While scrolling through YouTube tonight, I came across a video titled "Why Can't I Be a Rabbi?"  Times being what they are, I thought it said, "Why Can't I Be a Rabbit?"  There must have been some Jewish symbology on the thumbnail, because my second...

The Long and Rambling Word Salad Issue (A Satire)

19 Sep 2022 5 minute read 0 comments Rorschach's Journal

Long and rambling word salads are a well-known and frequently observed issue on many of the popular blogging sites available on the Web today. Does a decent education and a copy of Strunk and White's Elements of Style offer any reprieve from this sit...

HD 720 Language Skills

2 Apr 2020 1 minute read 3 comments Nathan Payne

Everybody is a cinematographer these days, but nobody can write.  Everyone is a master of graphic design, source code implementation, sound-file production (not necessarily music), video editing, and meme warfare, but nobody knows which "your" to use...

The longest word you can say (189,819 letters)

27 Jun 2019 28 minute read 0 comments martintibor40

The identity of the longest word in English depends upon the definition of what constitutes a word in the English language, as well as how length should be compared. Here's the world longest word: Methionyl​threonyl​threonyl​glutaminyl​alanyl​prolyl​...