@Cerberus Well yeah...when you bend over to attach the velcro straps on your shoes, your wool scarf slips down and gets caught in so when you try to straighten up you basically strangle yourself.
Fun conversation with "internet linguist" Gretchen McCulloch on the internet vernacular, its epochs and cohorts, and on tracking down in-person communication minutia in its typography and emoji: vox.com/podcasts/2019/11/25/20981722/…
> Here is an example sentence from the New Yorker magazine "One natural objection to the search for Dyson spheres is that it presupposes an endlessly consumptive technological teleology". What does teleology mean in that sentence ?
@Robusto Oops. I thought minutia was plural in construction, if not in form too. Maybe a quick corpus search could bear this usage out, but no matter. I'll switch to minutiae for minute details from now on.
I subscribed and got my bile two months ago. I suspect it's a sluggish bike. I pedal like I am being chased by a lion to get past another cyclist who seems to be quite relaxed and not caring how fast he is going.
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…