You know what tmesis often involves in English? Expletive infixation! Which is to say, while in some other languages tmesis can be every bit as serious as merism or hendiadys, say, in English we mostly use it for cussing. My[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I like this idea, so this may be the first in a series.
Low-hanging fruit? I’m comfortable with that.
The deformed fish (I’m pretty sure it was born like that) looks oddly naked. Fortunately forward locomotion is mostly the job of the tail (which is itself a fin, the caudal fin). So I have to imagine that a fish[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I think how it works is that when they’re just chilling side by side they’re a shoal, and when the shoal starts moving it becomes a school. (Apparently the words are closely related, both being related to Old English scolu,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
They can also be called a “glint,” which is much more fitting, as they do glint, quite attractively.
Not pictured: the suggestion to create an “atomic priesthood” that would maintain a religious understanding of the dangers of radioactivity and warn of divine punishment for trespassing in the forbidden area.
Radioactive waste is harmful for ten thousand years. Written language has been around for only about half that long, and some of it is already unreadable to us. So how do we warn the people of the far future not[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The further adventures of a middle-aged goofball (and editor). This isn’t the real reason editing romance novels is getting harder, of course, but it doesn’t help.
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