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Jeremy Kahn
Jeremy Kahn
@trochee@dair-community.social  ·  activity timestamp last week

Also, ALTAIC though I suppose that's a proper noun by their rules

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Stuart Robinson
Stuart Robinson
@stuartrobinson@sfba.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@trochee I'm with you 100% on ARITY but I'm less sure with PORTAPOTTY because I usually see it spelled as two words or with a hyphen.

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Jeremy Kahn
Jeremy Kahn
@trochee@dair-community.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@stuartrobinson

Yeah. In retrospect, usually *two* hyphens

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Jeremy Kahn
Jeremy Kahn
@trochee@dair-community.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

LUTEIN is a word, or there wouldn't be "luteinizing hormones" to learn about in human biology classes

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Jeremy Kahn
Jeremy Kahn
@trochee@dair-community.social  ·  activity timestamp last week

CLITIC is still a word

No it doesn't mean *that* you prudes. It's a #linguistics term

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Jeremy Kahn
Jeremy Kahn
@trochee@dair-community.social  ·  activity timestamp last week

Also, ALTAIC though I suppose that's a proper noun by their rules

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Jeremy Kahn
Jeremy Kahn
@trochee@dair-community.social  ·  activity timestamp 9 hours ago

Oh come on. You don't have FORMANT, and now you don't have EMIC either?

I can't be the only linguist frustrated now; we've pissed off the phonetics people AND the cultural anthropology people.

Alicia Beckford Wassink will be extra mad.

EMIC is rejected by the NYT. FOR SHAME
EMIC is rejected by the NYT. FOR SHAME
EMIC is rejected by the NYT. FOR SHAME
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Tatjana Scheffler
Tatjana Scheffler
@tschfflr@fediscience.org  ·  activity timestamp 7 hours ago

@trochee been there, tried that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Stuart Robinson
Stuart Robinson
@stuartrobinson@sfba.social  ·  activity timestamp 9 hours ago

@trochee EMIC and ETIC not being recognized has bugged me numerous times now

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Jeremy Kahn
Jeremy Kahn
@trochee@dair-community.social  ·  activity timestamp 9 hours ago

Also you reject MECHA, which has been a staple of my vocabulary almost as long as ANIME (accepted, but not in today's puzzle)

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Cassandra is only carbon now
Cassandra is only carbon now
@xgranade@wandering.shop  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@trochee The hell does anyone think "arity" is not a word? Good grief.

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