Wordy Blog Archive 2022-01

• Xah Lee Thanks Arirang (Xah Lee Site Review)

• no euphemism

• Myers-Briggs The personality test that conned the world

• Politics and the English Language (George Orwell)

• Russian Girl Speaks rrrrr

• Yuppies vs Bugmen, the road of lexicography extempore!

• teen prattle

• done. master peace of creative writing. history of lol

• Monty Python - Cheese Shop

• Etymology of restaurant, eatery

i used to use the dagger † (†) for several years in my writings. I think around 2004 to maybe 2010. but avoided it since because it suggests Christian cross.

and i think the implicit suggestion of Christian cross is intentional. similar to, US is usually US, not USA, when said by US American.

Accent Marks: Trema, Umlaut, Macron, Circumflex