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Category: lexical semantics

Real English Makes Me Chuckle, Exhibit B

A British detour. These people get me every time.

Real English Makes Me Chuckle, Exhibit A

A “mouse mat” … how cute it that?

Ahoy! Lexical Semantics Returns!

This post is the second in what I have hoped to be a weekly celebration of words (but has soon devolved into a desultory deliberation on diction). As always—super good.
The words below also come from a Paul Farmer book; today, it’s The Uses of Haiti. See a few quotes in the previous post.
(Note: definitions [...]

You Say Lexical Semantics; I Say Delicious

This post is the first in what I hope to be a weekly celebration of words (but will more likely devolve into a desultory deliberation on diction). As always—super good.
The words here come from Paul Farmer’s dissertation-turned-book, AIDS and Accusation. I quote from it in the post below. For more information on the book—and a [...]