Notices by Brian Bình (brianbinh@dice.camp)

I'm watching "Predator" with my kid. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Carl Weathers just shook hands in the opening.

"It's the meme! This is where it comes from!"

It's gone from movie night to cultural education.

@bluedragon It's actually true! Adding -ard to words in Middle English was equivalent to slang today adding -ass. A drunkard was a drunkass motherfucker. A dullard was a dullass motherfucker. A bollard was a bole (tree trunk)-ass thing.

The English suffix "-ard" (as in "drunkard", "laggard", "braggard", and "sluggard") is used to make adjectives into deprecating nouns.

"He's drunk" is just a description.
"He's a drunkard" is a moral judgment that finds the subject lacking.

The same process turned "he's wise" into "he's a wizard".

"Wizard" was the medieval equivalent of "smartass".