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aaargh, and the tearing of hair
Monday, 4 June 2007 05:50 pmThe wages of lounging about all weekend is having to mark like a fiend all day. I apostrophise the heavens and demand why, WHY half these students have to select Shrek as their text of choice for comparison with medieval romance? I mean, it works, but it's sadly unindulgent of the marker's superhero fetish. Also, the student so far who has chosen to look at Lord of the Rings has insisted on referring throughout to Freddo, Gandolf and Mr. Boggins, which is giving me a headache from the clenched jaw. Many are the trials of an English lecturer.
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wolverine_nun's Time: courtesy of Language Log, purveyor of weird linguistic wossnames, the odd and possibly pejorative1 language of non-baby-spawners as applied to spawn. Or, as the article says, hump-dumplings. Or crotch-fruit. None of which, I hasten to add, are words I use or would ever contemplate using, being as how, notwithstanding the faint sense of alienation which baby-spawning processes engender in me, I rather enjoy the tendency of my immediate social circle to demonstrate the more tangible real-world outcomes of sex. (Also, I figure that the more of you intelligent people who spawn, the less social pressure on me). Some of the terms are quite nasty, but I think others are relatively non-malicious; as the article points out, the range of non-reproducing responses to reproduction is wide, and I don't find the wry humour end too problematical. Actual baby-owning mileage may vary.
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wolverine_nun's Time: courtesy of Language Log, purveyor of weird linguistic wossnames, the odd and possibly pejorative1 language of non-baby-spawners as applied to spawn. Or, as the article says, hump-dumplings. Or crotch-fruit. None of which, I hasten to add, are words I use or would ever contemplate using, being as how, notwithstanding the faint sense of alienation which baby-spawning processes engender in me, I rather enjoy the tendency of my immediate social circle to demonstrate the more tangible real-world outcomes of sex. (Also, I figure that the more of you intelligent people who spawn, the less social pressure on me). Some of the terms are quite nasty, but I think others are relatively non-malicious; as the article points out, the range of non-reproducing responses to reproduction is wide, and I don't find the wry humour end too problematical. Actual baby-owning mileage may vary.1 How weird: I always thought that was "perjorative", from the same root as "perjury", but it ain't.
