I had a dream about the word asortectoctic, which was a word I didn’t know. In my dream I visited a professor who had finished a new way of organizing a dictionary, and it was part of the title of his dictionary. I told him I didn’t know the word, so I’d just look it up in his dictionary, and he laughed and told me it wasn’t in there.

I tried to take a picture of him holding his dictionary, but for some reason in my dream I couldn’t use my phone camera properly.

Also, he asked me how I liked his last two books, and I awkwardly pretended to have read them and said I liked them.

That’s a nice quality.

The world needs more cavorting.

What an asortectoctic development!

There’s a newish TV series called Counterpart. My brother told me to watch it, but I’ve had trouble getting myself to watch an entire TV show. I did watch five minutes of it, though.

Oh, I forgot there was a new Fargo thing.

I associate the stereotypical Minnesota dialect and accent more with rural Wisconsin, but that’s just where I personally heard more of it.

I love it, actually. Donchaknow is one of my favorite dialect features.

Hrm.

That sounds a bit better.

Yikes! Well, I don’t drink fruit juice anyway.

I eat fruit, but I don’t drink it.

Um, I guess you can, but I think you’re right that it sounds a little silly.

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with the translation.

Umm, I don’t know. Fastener could be okay.

I don’t like the “nominalized adjective” analysis much. It only works if you conflate category with function, which gives you a weaker theory than one might like.

I can understand why people look at it that way, though, or at least why they did historically.

I don’t care who writes answers. I just want them to be good answers.

@Jasper Watermelon is mostly water to begin with, so if you eat it it quenches your thirst.