"You scalar implicature!"
Language Log 2024-11-29
Today's SMBC:
Mouseover title: "Oddly enough, the hard part was picking jargon NOT to use."
The AfterComic:
I'm always happy to see Linguistics singled out for praise, but in fairness, technical terminology works pretty well from whatever domain:
Exocrine secretion! Weak anisotropic reflection! Torridonian alluvium! Conjugacy-closed subgroup! Homotopical nilpotency! Simplicial foliation! Hypersoft bijection! Facticious akataphasia!
And cross-domain combinations can be even better, like "bijective alluvium".