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Language Log 2024-12-20

Today's SMBC starts this way:

The whole thing:

The Mouseover title: "Sadly, the patreon subscriber ideas were all better than mine."

The Aftercomic:

Update — Humorous (pseudo-)antonyms aside, my favorite example of the linguistic insights available from latinate morphology in English is the semantic drift evident in conscription, description, prescription, inscription, transcription, subscription, proscription, ascription, circumscription,

There's also inception, deception, reception, conception, exception, …