New words
Language Log 2024-12-20
Summary:
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, […]