Paletas paletas paletas! (Can you tell I got to have paletas today?)
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Nooooooo. But really, no. Graphics has a hard G. I’m sticking my feet in the ground for this one.
But the OED made me happy:
The Oxford English Dictionary’s chief editor John Simpson made it clear that whatever the word’s roots, the fact many people used the hard “g” meant that option was acceptable.
“The pronunciation with a hard ‘g’ is now very widespread and readily understood,” he said.
“A coiner effectively loses control of a word once it’s out there; for instance, the coiner of quark in the physics sense had intended it to rhyme with cork, but general usage has resulted in it rhyming with mark.
Hard G for life.
Some workplaces have a softball league. Or Team Building Exercises. I’ve convinced three coworkers to join me in my weekly Dungeon and Dragons game at the local Comic Book shop. It’s only a matter of time before the rest of the office joins us. Soon we will have assimilated whole office and the nerding it out will be complete.
I wish I could do this. All my coworkers are into baseball and hipster bands.
From ‘cyberspace’ to ‘web ring’ and ‘information superhighway’ to ‘netizen’, the Dictionaries team looks at some of the most high-profile Internet-related terms which, if used now, would probably be considered an epic fail.
Other cyber- words are now equally unfashionable.
So does this mean we can finally stop using the word cybrarian? That word seriously needs to die.
It’s like Evangelion x kaiju x Lovecraft. Summer popcorn fest or not I am really excited for this movie.
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett is the perfect gateway fantasy.
One of my absolutely favorite books and pretty much responsible for getting me into both Gaiman and Pratchett.
5 Centimeters Per Second. Directed by Makoto Shinkai. Created by CoMix Wave Inc.
