December 2009
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Doctress!
I decided maybe we should start saying doctress for female doctors. Ha! But maybe it would actually be good because remember that brain teaser where people can’t figure out how the kid’s doctor is his parent when it’s not his dad? It works as a brain teaser because we assume “doctors” are men. Maybe if we started to say doctress every time we’re talking about a...
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Actor/Actress
One of my favorite teachers in high school was always coming in with a crazy theory every other day. One day she started telling us that it’s sexist to distinguish actresses from actors and we should just call everybody an actor and drop actress altogether. What do you think?
What the hell is a steampunk?
I have no idea what steampunk is but I think it must be more popular on the west coast because suddenly I hear about it all the time. So what the eff is it? I looked it up from my super secret source!:
Steampunk is a sub-genre of fantasy and speculative fiction that came into prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s. The term denotes works set in an era or world where steam power is still widely...
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Now for something I hate
Now I say “girls” but I also say “boys” or even kid if I’m talking about one boy. I also say “chicks,” like all the time. But I usually say “dudes” if I’m talking about chicks. There are words that I think are wrong 99.9% of the time but these words fall into the context category. There was a time when I wanted to say woman instead of...
“I hate when people say, “don’t ask” after you’ve already...”
– Cally my sister. She keeps speech strictly practical.
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Monkey calls give clues to language origins →
via @EcoPreservation
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What's Your One True Sandwish
I invented a new word today: Sandwish.
Like at this moment, my sandwish is avocado and tomato on pumpernickle bread.
Other new idea: you know how we’re always discussing which beauty school is the best and stuff? We should start calling the ones that aren’t that great, “pretty schools.”
WatchBecause of my new favorite TV show Glee, I been thinking about gravity lately. I’ve come to a conclusion:
GIVE GRAVITY A BREAK
Why’s everyone always trying to defy gravity? Like it’s the damn queen of England. Gravity is just trying to be itself, it didn’t ask for any of this. I’m thinking maybe it’s just because they call it “the Law of Gravity,”...
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