New words
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, …