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, […]

Link:

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=67447&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=new-words

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comics

Authors:

Mark Liberman

Date tagged:

12/20/2024, 13:00

Date published:

12/20/2024, 08:35