Bad Language

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Ouch! That's got to make the eyes water.

[stylofone]

It's like Julius Caesar, stabbed in the portico. I had a splinter there once.

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It's like Julius Caesar, stabbed in the portico. I had a splinter there once.

Indeed, "splinter there, once" is shorthand in this household, when we describe this kind of ambiguity.

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Bi-directional naming similarity.

PulkoMandy
@pulkomandy@mastodon.tetaneutral.net

I have just realized a very annoying thing: the "Austr-" in "Austria" means East, from German Öster. The "Austr-" in "Australia", on the other hand, means South, from Latin Australis.

Thank you, have a nice day.

[two dogs]

A recent Facebook post from an eatery I often patronise on my morning walks:

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My response:

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@two dogs - Never mind! I wouldn't necessarily eat anything a skilled grammarian had made, either.

[two dogs]

Their food & coffee is great, and their young staff are wonderful.

I was intending to walk the 7.5 km there for lunch today (I've only ever had breakfast there), until strong winds developed, to try this:

https://www.stackseatery.com.au/product ... chetta/190

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Both written the same...

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There's nothing quite so much fun as competitive awful writing.

The 2023 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction contest winners are up!

https://www.bulwer-lytton.com/2023

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From yesterday's SMH Column 8:

The dog really did eat my homework (C8) Part II: “My daughter is a school teacher and often takes work home to mark,” says Judy Edwards of Kanahooka. “While making coffee, her eight-week-old blue cattle dog took a book from the table and ate some of it. She had to admit to a student next day that her dog had eaten his homework. I am not sure what mark he received.”

Damn. My dog hasn't learned how to unscrew the espresso thingy lid yet.

I must be a bad trainer.