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@gneubig ALL of them. except the syntacticians, who would say “of course.”

@drjavafox cyclists use something like that on insides of legs; you might ask at a cycle shop

@ecormany @richlitt oh, that is a much better joke about “Homo” than I was going to make. Have y’all seen @jsmooth995’s video on “no homo”?

@scotthorn unless she is also plural, you want “notorious lady’s man” and “I belong to a notorious lady”. #languagenerd

@moximer Basquiat: consider parallel: “I don’t listen to psycholinguists; I already know how to speak English.” Criticism != practice.

@barrydeutsch I could imagine a jingoist Amurricun naming his dog Ground-Zero… or a particularly perverse atheist Jew naming dog Auschwitz

@jmccyoung eh. Why rush?

@jmccyoung very Berkeley, i think. Might be better as “procrastinate tomorrow” –Future Procrastinators of America.

@eldang a big rolypoly black and white bear with root privileges is TERRIFYING, not delightful.

@PeterSokolowski there are some lexicographers who might choose instead to change the letters of the alphabet to Jan, Feb, Mar…