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You're welcome. 😘

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RE: https://toot.cat/@woozle/116324189191503185

Hi, I'm Courtney. I'm not autistic, but I do have ADHD, which does, at times, trigger neurodivulgence.

Also, I am liking the application of inflectional morphology to DuckDuckGo.

The existence of DuckDuckGo implies not only the existence of DuckDuckWent (as @woozle demonstrates below), but also of DuckDuckHaveGone and DuckDuckWillHaveBeenGoing.

It's completely delightful.

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@oldrawgabbit So that would presumably be the King James version, which if I recall was out in 1611? So not Middle English. Interestinger 🙂

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"The Real is accessed by language. The point of language is to keep language as an endlessly revisable process. Words don't have meanings -- they have histories, and they have futures, and they have memories."

--John Caputo

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#TIL the word MULCT.

noun: a fine or compulsory payment

verb: to extract money by taxation or by fraud

Possibly originates from a #ProtoIndoEuropean word for "to extract" or "to milk (something).

I have never heard or read this word in my life.

#English is gloriously weird.

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Here's one of mine:

#TIL that the verb "redund" exists, and it makes my heart happy.

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https://ohai.social/@ChasMusic/112181706871569241

...an error Apelles had made in the rendering of a shoe. But once Apelles had corrected the shoe, the cobbler launched into criticizing the legs, which prompted Apelles to tell him to "keep to his last" (as the phrase was rendered in the 1600s CE).

Today, we say "stay in your lane." 😉

A person who ignores this advice and spouts opinions on things they don't know anything about, thereby going "beyond the shoe," is an "ultracrepidarian."

NEW. FAVORITE. WORD.

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2/2

Y'ALL.

If you love the interrobang (‽) as much as I do, you're gonna go 30-50 feral hogs wild over the exclomma*

(*Someone in comments said "exclamma," but that sounds like a weird seafood dish to me.)

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https://mastodon.green/@CiaraNi/109971804483425176

I've just stuck the word "wamblecropt" into my #fantasy #WIP, and I am terribly pleased.

“Wamblecropt is the most exquisite word in the English language. Say it. Each syllable is intolerably beautiful.”

― Mark Forsyth,
The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language

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TIL the word "priest" ultimately comes from a Proto-Indo-European word meaning "one who leads cattle."

I am amused.

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