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

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...

Nathan Payne 1 minute read 22 Aug 2024 0 comments $0.04

A Fluffle of Rabbi

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...

Nathan Payne 4 minute read 25 Mar 2024 0 comments $0.02

The Long and Rambling Word Salad Issue (A Satire)

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...

Rorschach's Journal 5 minute read 19 Sep 2022 0 comments $0.15

HD 720 Language Skills

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...

Nathan Payne 1 minute read 2 Apr 2020 3 comments $0.04

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

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​...

martintibor40 28 minute read 27 Jun 2019 0 comments $0.02