Girlsemanticsatiation
Language Log 2025-11-16
Summary:
Yesterday's Dinosaur Comics: Ryan arguably pushes past the bounds of good taste in the mouseover title: "girl we have some bad news on your girlsecondarycancerlabreport. i'm afraid i have some bad news for some very specific cancer girlies". But maybe that's the point? There are certainly earlier models for the girl-NOUN (and boy-NOUN) pattern, e.g. […]