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“Actually, it’s pronounced ‘pedant.’” — Avery Edison (@aedison) December 6, 2009
Stare Competition
The entire page is gold, but the reader comments are stunning.
“English is full of words whose pronunciation deviates from prescribed standards—precisely because usage, and not prescriptive rules, dictates what is “correct.” No amount of arguing from pundits and word-coiners can ever change this!” — Erik J. Macki on The GIF Pronunciation Page, which totally exists and is far more entertaining than howtopronouncegif.com, which also totally exists.
“If you absolutely must crawl up my ass with a microscope, at least spare me the complaint that it’s not all roses and lavender.” — George Friedman
I still don’t quite know what to think about the Tumblr acquisition. It seems an enormous gamble on both sides. Like a smart, hip young woman who, after a few indelicate stumbles, had finally started making her way in the world only to elope with a desperate, aging serial wife murderer. Maybe they can save each other. Maybe.
But this oddly chaste robo-truncated CEO tumbltweet is a perfect piece of poetry.
fucking perfect
Actually, Ben, there is a list of seven key takeaways on slides 105-111.
Even our head-shots scream “webinar!” I’m going to need an antacid.
Project meeting!