My partner decided “loaf” was a weird word so I looked up its etymology and now we know “lord” comes from “loaf-ward” ie guardian of the bread.
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Wendy Palmer (wendypalmer@mastodon.au)'s status on Saturday, 16-Mar-2024 12:23:07 JST Wendy Palmer
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Wendy Palmer (wendypalmer@mastodon.au)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Dec-2023 17:50:04 JST Wendy Palmer
@maisiesummers @acm_redfox @countcol cook cleans up is exactly my policy now — if I’m having a night off from cooking, I want it to be a complete night off, not having to clean up the truly phenomenal mess my partner manages to leave in his wake 😊
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Wendy Palmer (wendypalmer@mastodon.au)'s status on Sunday, 29-Oct-2023 22:34:32 JST Wendy Palmer
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Wendy Palmer (wendypalmer@mastodon.au)'s status on Saturday, 07-Oct-2023 15:38:27 JST Wendy Palmer
@sfwrtr @strangeseawolf @Nichelle
“it might mean that your gut reaction about where the plot needs to go will have to be carefully examined. Writers have reflexes, too!”
I’d most like to write a book as usual, then click a button and have every pronoun switch, and see how that affects the story.
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Wendy Palmer (wendypalmer@mastodon.au)'s status on Saturday, 07-Oct-2023 15:38:26 JST Wendy Palmer
@sfwrtr @strangeseawolf @Nichelle
true, that’s why it’d be such an interesting experiment. I feel like I write relatively gender-neutral characters but we’re all so seeped in our respective cultures’ gender markers that it’d be sure to trip me over my own subconscious biases and that would be valuable.
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Wendy Palmer (wendypalmer@mastodon.au)'s status on Monday, 26-Dec-2022 22:44:43 JST Wendy Palmer
“Booty call” and “butt dial” has been offered up as an example of where the literal meaning of two phrases is the same but the implied meaning is very different (denotative vs connotative meanings).
Today a coffee mug gave me another example: “dad bod” and “father figure”