Youāre single-handedly fueling my tiara obsession. These are gorgeous pieces 
A paper about the coexistence of Brunus edwardii and the North American House Hippoā¦ now that would be delightful.
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My journey at 42 the computer science school is coming to an end:
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I would read this!
Also, have you heard of the Tasmanian mock walrus? A good candidate for interacting with the house hippo, since theyāre domesticated and could end up in North America that way.
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(Iām not sure if I spammed your website with this comment or if my phone was just having issues notifying me the comment was submitted, sharing here as well just in case)
I get in two minds about this. While I generally prefer direct language, I am sympathetic to Adam Aleksicās (The Ethmology Nerd) argument that euphemisms for heavy topics help people discuss them when they arnt confident yet. See previous Euphemisms like āpassed awayā etc
On the otherhand, I am LIVID that this particular generation of language softening is algorithmically imposed on us by the most moral and virtuous class in humanity ā tech CEOs.
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I just checked my spreadsheets for the comment widget and it seems to not be working. Idk if itās my javascript or what, but Iām really sorry that your comment is showing up in the responses. Iāll see if I can fix it, but if not I might have to close comments 
Yeah, it really just depends on the situation so I can see why some people refer to using euphemisms especially within private conversations.But in the case of something like a video essay or a journalistic investigation; using terms like āunaliveā, ācheese pizzaā, āpdf fileā, āgrape sodaā to refer to serious topics that NEED to be exposed as they are, neuters the events/actions being described. Usually itās done out of monetization too, which also goes into another can of worms that I donāt wanna get into right now.
The point is that people often follow by example. If this is what the people with public personas are putting out, what more until something that needs a real discussion becomes shameful to talk about with people you trust?
For the sake of my own privacy, Iāll be brief about my POV. I found that censoring my speech made it harder to discuss my experiences with abuse without feeling as if I wasnāt allowed to express the gravity of the trauma from the events, because the people surrounding me refused to refer to it as it was. Having to dance around the subject with fancy words made me feel more ashamed to have a conversation about it. It took years until I was able to open up. Again, Iām not a monolith so of course, other survivors probably have different views than mine.
Thank you for your comment though, it really adds more to the conversation which I hope more people contribute too (I kinda had a goal to kickstart some kind of discussion about it maybe). I wish I could have seen it on the site. 
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Every time I click on your blog Iām so happy I found it againā¦ (Have you considered making an RSS feed? 
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The flipside is that people protesting ātabooā words often mean āI should be allowed to use slurs with no social consequencesā and that makes it very hard to have a discussion about the softening of language that doesnāt go into that.
I agree with your post, Iām against censoring words that are used to refer to important issues that people should be able to discuss openly. Iām tired of this trend.
As an aside, I donāt believe āgayā (as in homosexual) is in the Bible at all if weāre talking about translations used by mainstream denominations. If I saw a Bible like that, I would facepalm so hard my nose would come out of my neck.
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I could well imagine, haha. (How on earth did you aquire a printing press?! Feels like thereās a story worth telling there, if it hasnāt already been told on your site!)
Anyway, uh, I had the last two days off from work and had nothing better to do with my time, so now my site looks like an old book. 
See the title page here, and the blog post about the update. Donāt forget to purge your browserās cache if youāve visited previously.
Haha I canāt believe anyone finds my garbage exciting. I have considered making an RSS feed before, but I found it difficult to do and I didnāt have the motivation to do it. Maybe Iāll finally try it again in the near future?
True. I was thinking of addressing that within the post, I just didnāt know where else to make that point without going more of tangent than I already did. It could be something to write about in a new entry maybe? This topic is a rabbit hole with opinions that are shaped by different experiences
If thatās the case, Iām sorry about spreading any misinformation in my part. Iāll see if I can find more sources to back up that claim. Otherwise, Iāll edit it out when I have time.
Now I want a tiny walrus that purrs.
On a slightly lighter note, the other linguistic gripe I have with the new generation of euphemisms
Complaining about them makes me sound like a crotchety old language prescriptivist. But I swear Iām not, itās the algorithms and oligarchs who are the ones prescribing.
So I feel like I have to clarify that I have no problem with Skibbidy Toilet or 6-7, after all, I grew up with YEET and 21, and my Gen X friends still think 42 is the funniest response to any question you can ask
My beef is exclusively aimed at one subset of NewSpeak (mostly the euphemisms you mentioned)
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@cosy_diner , I totally understand why you didnāt include that aspect of it! Itās a difficult subject and covering everything in a single post would be tough.
Regarding the word āgayā in the Bible, I looked it up. It seems that the word that got added in 1946 was āhomosexualā : https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469624112.003.0001
Thatās in English, of course. Iām not sure of the history in other languages. Itās still a terrible choice that combines bigotry with a poor understanding of the nuances of Ancient Greek.
@Manatee same!
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This phrase always bugged me a littleā¦ sort of blaming people for choosing the least-bad option among the limited choices on offer.
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Haha I need to make a page for the presses! Iāve run an art press for 11 years, printing linocuts with type. I keep my art life separate so as not to dox myself. The new update looks great!
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Whole-heartedly agree. I used to see a lot of ads from youtubers about services that you pay to delete personal info from data broker websites (before I had a sponsor skip add-on lol), when they donāt do shit. Thereās many more services out there that you never get what you paid for and theyāre just wasting your time.
MLMs and Pyramid Schemes are built off the basis of āIf you buy now and you recruit more people for us to scam into our cult give more financial opportunities, we guarantee youāll get more money somehow.ā, and then up the price on the hard-sell.
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Ah, that makes more sense! I was initially imagining it as an heirloom-like situation, in which there was this massive 18th-century printing press passed down through your family over the years. Generation after generation of small_cypresses suddenly finding themselves looking at this wooden and metal monstrosity in the corner of their living rooms and going āwelp, guess I own a printing press now.ā
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Iāve got to say, I love your siteās design! Itās so well put together.
By the way, I read your āaboutā and Iām confused about how you can be fiscally liberal but denounce millionaires? Iām mentioning this because Iām guessing you accidentally a word or similar. (I had a horrible typo in my colophon until someone pointed it outā¦)
I see you like TS2 too! ONE OF US, ONE OF US. Iāll never not feel like itās best game in the whole franchise and it makes me happy to see it in the wild! Do you know the Plumbob Keep?
Anyway, I just lurked your site a bit and while I loved your old theme, the new one makes it feel book-like.
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