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@xek then again, I suppose it doesn’t pay to get t…

@xek then again, I suppose it doesn’t pay to get too interested in sexing a carnivore with a six foot wingspan and bone-crushing talons

@xek I’m arguably in the 1% WRT English vocabulary, & still found TOTALLY NEW words (“tiercel”, “cria”) & surprising gaps (adult eagles?)

RT @xek: Further evidence that English is slightly crazy: a table of animals and the terms for them at each stage of life. http://t.co/GotB…

@jetharrington I submit the “Captain Sparrow” for your consideration

RT @steve_lieber: Someone has goosed Google Chrome’s automatic French-to-English page translation so that “>>” = “Do you even lift” http://…

@MagnoliaPearl love this form of the Bond legend: the enemy are the sorts of people who monologue with sinister laugh and have laser sharks.

@zeynep @pettter_e @MaxAbrahms imagine if FP post mortems needed even 2pp each tho

RT @zeynep: .@MaxAbrahms “Loon wolf” is such a good & accurate term. It’s pretty hard to ID such people without massive false negatives or …

@pettter_e @zeynep @MaxAbrahms measured as rate, easy to get massive FN, ie 100%