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Cimorene ([personal profile] cimorene) wrote2019-11-25 11:54 am

A few fun observations from this morning's nonfiction SoMe feeds:

  • "my dumb ass" is not the same as "my dumbass" (my dumbass is named Snookums)


  • "wanting mac and cheese" is not the same as "wanting Mac and cheese" (Highlander fanfiction?)


  • "forebear" is not the same as "forebearer" (although... what would the latter even mean? You're a person who carries stuff and they carried it before you?)


  • "charted" is not the same as "chartered"
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[personal profile] krait 2019-11-26 03:20 am (UTC)(link)
"Forebearer" sounds like a term from a culture where time loops happen and 'I am my own great-grandmother' is something people need a pithy single-word term to express. :D